Tumay and Emel, their little girl Oya, and the maid Dadi make up a turkisj living quietly in France until the day that Emel contracts AIDS following an accident.
Tumay grows so desperate that he can no longer handle his job of company manager. When the Cherman discovers the situation, Tumay is fired.
Sonia, his deputy manager, responds to Tumay's charm and uses every strategy to win him over.
A friend named Sibelle divorces her French husband, René, and takes over from the maid Dadi, who can no longer bear to see Emel wasting away. Emel finds herself rejected by Pétula the hairdresser as welle as by good friends like Semra and Erkan...