After Women in Turkey gained the right to be elected, Sultan, one of the women of the village in a countryside, works hard to be elected as Muhtar, first by learning how to read-write. On her success to election, not only her husband but also the men of the village stand as the biggest handicap.
A widower has problems with a businesman, who wants to take over her house with the purpose of turning it into a gambling house. She hires a man, known to be tough guy formerly, to defend the family against the powerful businesman. But the foreigner has some drinking problems.
Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing...
Şerif Ağa wants to marry the girl, who works with her, to a rich man. Zeynep resists but when she hears that the young man he loves will be killed, she has to accept it.
The film depicts the French occupation of the Mediterranean city of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey during World War I and the resistance of the Maraş people against this occupation.
