Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, is hired by a Turkish woman, Ilter, to search for her husband Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unbeknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.