Nejat does not seem to accept the decision of his widower Ali to choose the prostitute Yeter as a friend of hers. But he loves her more and more as he discovers that she is sending money to study her daughter's home in Turkey. Yeter's sudden death removes father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is friends with a young woman, Lotte, who invites the rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture that her conservative mother Susanne does not particularly like. When Ayten is arrested and her application for asylum is denied, she is deported to Turkey and detained. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she finds herself in the seemingly hopeless situation of liberating Ayten.