Two construction workers from Istanbul yearn to escape to sunny Italy and find better jobs. In an attempt to save enough money to move, they unwittingly become involved in their boss's shady criminal dealings. With a little twist of unexpected events their lives turns out to be far from anything they have dreamed of.

A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center where they do not belong, where they are excluded. They adopted a brutal method to seize rights that were not granted to them. Unaware of what will happen to them, cheerful and well-to-do university students are helpless in the face of this gun-wielding mob that suddenly raids the bar where they are having fun.

Ali and Sudi, who received a 10-year imprisonment for embedding many bodies in the backyard of a construction they had previously worked on, were now free after completing their sentences. After the past events, both friends are determined not to get involved in this kind of crime again. Two friends start working as a night watchman at an entertainment venue on the Aegean coast, which does not have a business permit. Captain Remzi, who owns the entertainment venue, also runs human trafficking with his boat. While both friends dream of going abroad with the women they love, these plans will fall through with the two bodies wash ashore. Although Ali and Sudi bury these two bodies in order not to get into trouble, they will not be able to escape the complex situation they fell into.

Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.