Fatmagül Ketenci is a young woman who lives with her brother in a village on the Aegean coast. She is engaged to marry a fisherman called Mustafa Nalçalı and dreams of getting away from her nagging sister-in-law Mukaddes. Kerim Ilgaz is a blacksmith apprentice who lives with his aunt Meryem Aksoy. The event of the season is the engagement of a rich businessmen's son Selim to the local politician's daughter, Meltem. Kerim meets up with his old friends Vural and cousins Erdoğan and Selim. After the engagement party, all four of them go on a drinking and drug binge to celebrate. Meanwhile, Fatmagül is off to see Mustafa depart on another fishing trip and accidentally comes across them. Erdoğan, Selim and Vural gang-rape her. Kerim accepts the blame and agrees to marry a reluctant Fatmagül in order to protect his friends. Fatmagül and Kerim move to İstanbul to start a new life - where Kerim falls in love with Fatmagul and supports her in the fight against her rapists.