[1] İlyas (Kadir İnanır) is a truck driver from Istanbul who comes to a remote village to work in the construction of a dam.

When his truck gets stuck in the muddy dirt road, he comes across Asya (Türkan Şoray), a woman from the village who he nicknames Al Yazmalım ('red scarf').

Asya and Samet are wandering by the road when they hitchhike on the back of a truck with a kind stranger Cemşit (Ahmet Mekin).

After Cemşit realises that Asya has nowhere to go, he takes pity on them and offers them food and shelter while İlyas searches desperately for them.

Then one day after many years, İlyas suddenly appears and Asya is left to make a choice between him and Cemşit.