A self sacrificing, selfless mother who makes the impossible "possible" for her daughter - a daughter who is ashamed of her mother and wants to run away from her mother and her life with her. Her journey to the college drives Nazli away from the village she has grown up - but years later, she wants to go back to the village where she was born, back to her mother - after all those years passed by with tons of "I wish". Candan Ercetin performed her song "Annem - Mom" once again for the movie twenty years later.
The lives of Erdem, Sevil, and their children Edip and Sevgi in a small town change when they move to Istanbul after Sevil's mother suffers a stroke. Edip has been away from home for ten years, attending boarding school, while Erdem continues to dream of becoming a successful writer. Noticing Sevgi's withdrawal and unhappiness, and suspicious of her sudden changes in behavior, Sevil begins to question some of the events taking place within the home and discovers a secret that has been hidden behind closed doors for years. When Erdem loses his life in a traffic accident, his death leads to the emergence of new secrets within the family. Each member of the small family is left to face the truths they must carry alone for the rest of their lives. What is this secret they cannot even confess to themselves?
Set in the 1960s, the story of the Akarsu family includes Ali, Cemile and their four children: Berrin, a law student, Aylin and Mete, high school students, and 5 year old Osman. Ali begins an affair with Caroline, a Dutch woman, which leads to the disintegration of the family.
