Synopsis:

Muazzez's father is an ageing man with Alzheimer's and she must remind him who he is before he dies. The year is 1977. After two terms as the local mayor, Aziz Ozay has just failed to be re - elected for a third. He lives with his wife and three daughters in a spectacular house complete with orchards and a garden. The rest of the townsfolk either steal into the orchards to swipe fruit or write love letters to the girls. One night, one of the daughters, Muazzez catches one of the culprits. The culprit is Ozgur, a handsome guy who could have stepped out of the pages of a photonovel. Ozgur has a different sort of smell about him. It turns out to be the smell of his hair, of something they call " shampoo " And so begins an adventure that grows into a web of stories taking in marriages for love, marriages under protest, military take - overs, never - ending civil war and migration untold joys and disappointments.