Bizim Hikaye (English: Our Story) is a Turkish drama series starring Hazal Kaya as Filiz, a young woman who takes care of her siblings after her mother leaves them, and Burak Deniz as Barış, a mysterious man, who appears in Filiz's life.
Season 1 Filiz, 20, is a young woman in a lower-class Turkish family, forced to take care of her five younger siblings after her mother leaves and as her father, Fikri, is an alcoholic.
Fikri reports the fact that his children are living without parental supervision to social services, resulting in her siblings being taken from Filiz, forcing her to marry Cemil.
Barış has a strained relationship with his father, who dislikes Filiz because she comes from a poor background.
Ömer secretly loves Filiz, but he comes to the neighborhood to find diamonds that Yeliz stole.
She refuses to believe this, as Barış had written her letters, but her younger brothers reveal to her that they were the ones who wrote them so that she would not worry.
Rahmet sees Baris carrying Neslihan to a hotel and accuses him of cheating on Filiz.
Later Rahmet finds out it was a misunderstanding, and Barış carried Neslihan to her room because she was drunk, and he did not sleep with her.
The idea for the project was first discussed in 2015[4] and its name was announced as Utanmazlar, an adaptation of the American TV series Shameless.
[5] Milliyet columnist Sina Koloğlu published an article on 16 January 2017 in which he wrote that after asking the question "How our ‘Shameless’ is going to be?"
[8] Bizim Hikaye's script was written by Hatice Meryem and Banu Kiremitçi Bozkurt.
Banu Kiremitçi Bozkurt, who wrote the script for the first season, left the crew, and Seray Şahiner became the series' main scriptwriter.
[11] In January 2017, the first actor confirmed to join the cast was Hazal Kaya, who played Filiz Elibol.
Yağız Can Konyalı, Nejat Uygur, Zeynep Selimoğlu, Alp Akar, and Ömer Sevgi joined the cast as Fikri and Şükran's children Rahmet, Hikmet, Kiraz, Fikret, and İsmet respectively.
[19] In the second season, Sahra Şaş, Miray Akay, Murat Danacı, Melisa Döngel and Hazal Adıyaman joined the cast as Çiçek, Zeynep, Selim, Deniz and Derin respectively.
[24] Writing for Vatan, Oya Doğan praised Gözelekli for his work on the first episode of the series, adding that he succeeded in "creating a cinematographic atmosphere."