According to the director the film, which is about a bandit who comes to Istanbul after serving a 35-year jail sentence, "blends fairy tale elements while carrying the notion of reality within a fictional story.

[5][6][7] After serving a 35-year jail sentence, Baran (played by Şener Şen), an eşkıya (a bandit, a haydut in Turkish), is released from prison in Viranşehir, a town in Eastern Turkey.

To avoid the plainclothes police officers stationed to apprehend him, and trusting the old man's lack of ill intent, Cumali passed off the contraband he carried to Baran, asking him to return it to him at a specified address.

Child of an abusive household, Cumali was raised in the alleys of Beyoğlu, his life revolving around dives, gambling parlours, alcohol, dope and women.

He becomes a courier for a local mobster to release from confinement his lover Emel's (Yeşim Salkım) brother, Sedat (Özkan Uğur) and he begins to skim off the drugs entrusted to him and sell them off on the side.

It's revealed that Berfo had purposefully written a dishonoured cheque as a last act of spite, and in retaliation, Demircan has Cumali gunned down in broad daylight.

Enraged by the death of his surrogate son, Baran goes on a murderous rampage, starting with the abusive pimp of the ageing prostitute Sevim (Güven Hokna), then raiding Demircan's shop, gunning down his gang and executing the terrified mobster despite his desperate pleas.

Sandra Brennan, writing on Allmovie, describes it as a, "lightning-paced, romantic actioner,"[4] but ultimately gave the movie only two out of a possible five stars, whilst Rekin Teksoy, writing in Turkish Cinema, states, "Turgul's narrative imbued with sorrow weaves in elements of American action films and television clips," "pays great attention to detail," and, "relies on the tradition of legends found in eastern literature.