这是20世纪30年代，在宗古尔达克，土耳其的一个煤矿小镇，共和运动正在进展中。在受邀请的客人中有几位是初次来到这个乏味的小镇：哈利特，一个采矿工程师，还有他漂亮的老婆Mükerrem，等家庭成员。当地首富之子Nüshet邀请Mükerrem跳舞，Seniha在角落里看到了整个过程。Mükerrem的命运将被这个小镇所改变。 　　It’s the 1930s. The Republic Day Ball is in progress in Zonguldak, a coal mining town in Turkey. Among the invited guests are the newcomers to this small and boring town: Halit, a mine engineer; his gorgeous wife, Mükerrem; and Halit’s sister and unwanted household member, Seniha. When Nüshet, whose father is the richest man in town, asks Mükerrem for a dance, Seniha, who has been watching them from a dark corner, immediately realizes that Mükerrem will not be able to resist the incredible (and feminine) beauty of this young man. At the same moment, she also knows that God would lift her up from the place where she has long surrendered to a fate of ugliness, to a place where she would be the one who determines the destiny of beauty.