Elyas lives in Kreuzberg, spends his afternoons in Veit’s pub and tells his mother something about studying law. He rejects her calls because he can just imagine how his father is doing. The look on Uncle Cemal’s face is bad enough. He is the only one whose sad truths Elyas will listen to. Because Cemal has retained a natural wit even though he has lost his home twice: first Turkey, and now, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, his neighbourhood as well. But then Elyas meets the young physician Aylin ‒ of all places at the official celebration of the recruitment agreement between Germany and Turkey, where both of them feel out of place. Aylin is strong and smart but she also carries a sadness within her which both of them can only get rid of together.