Isa is a college professor in a stormy relationship with television producer Bahar. They've been together for years, but while on a seaside vacation with friends, tensions rise, and Bahar ends their romance and returns to Istanbul alone. Ambivalence haunts the separated lovers as they decide whether to reconcile. Nuri Bilge Ceylan is writer, director and star of the torrid romance, while his real-life wife, Ebru Ceylan, portrays Bahar.