Öktem Özses

A lively film about Galata's notorious prostitute, Fosforlu Cevriye, who had endured a life of suffering, taking in a wounded man she met in the boat where she was hiding from the police, nursing him back to health in her home, and then falling in love with him.

An orphaned Kurdish child (Hêjar) and a Turkish pensioner (Rıfat) are thrown together by circumstance. Rıfat, a widowed retired judge, refuses to get involved in politics. He is forced out of his solitude, when Hêjar the only survivor of a police raid on his Kurdish neighbors, takes refuge at his home. Gradually, he warms up to the kid and decides to reunite her with her family.