Plot
A love story between leaving and staying... "The Guest" Oktay, in his first night in his hometown Kutahya, coming from many years in Paris, faces the reasons that kept him away from home for so many years. As he is about to leave town again, he finds himself in a distant relative's house, and there, he meets Ayse. Ayse is a countryside woman who cannot fit in her small world of four walls she lives in. There are two things that make her life tolerable: his son Ahmet and her affair with her neighbor, Makbule... Until she sees Oktay again, after so many years... Oktay and Ayse, with their affair kept hidden, find the happiness they have been craving after so long. And they can only keep their happiness if Ayse goes to Paris with Oktay. Ayse, with the prospect of being happy for the first time, and amongst all the things she knew as life, now has to make a choice. And Ayse's decision will also determine the disposition of Oktay, not feeling at home anywhere in the world, as a "guest" in his own life.

Plot
Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Çaça live a meager existence on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they breed pigeons on the roof, by night they roam the streets with their entourage in their pimped-up car, "My Orange Angel". Their neighborhood's view of the city's gigantic business towers accelerates their ambitions. The two buddies want to open their own parking-lot business near a gigantic mall, and they just might get lucky, since they're supported by the local mafia boss.

Plot
The story of a man who believes he's been presented with a new life where he witnesses his son's resurrection. He finds the woman he's been looking for all his life. All this is a miracle for him. However, as in all miracles, it has to end. This is the tale of an odd search covering extraordinary circumstances in which the destinies of the heroes intercept and overlap.

Plot
Jessica, a young British girl, goes off to Arabia with her father to be with her fiancé when he's called there suddenly on diplomatic duty. On a tourist journey she's kidnapped by what appears to be a Beduion tribe and sold into the harem of the Sultan. The man that took her captive is not actually a Beduion but an Oxford educated revolutionary who traded Jessica for the release of his friends from the Sultan's prison. As her fiancé struggles to free her from the harem he inadvertently hires the very man who put her there to get her out. Meanwhile, Jessica is fending of the Sultan's advances and coming to know a new way of life. Romance, political intrigue, and the jealousies of the harem all threaten Jessica's narrow view of the world. If she escapes will she actually be able to return to life in Victorian England?

Keywords: counter-plot, harem, intrigue, middle-east, ottoman-empire, prisoner, revolution, seraglio, sultan