While two young poet Muzaffar Tayyip Uslu (Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ) and Rüştü Onur (Mert Fırat) continue their civil service life in this newly modernized mining city, they also live together with art, literature, and most poetry, they have a dream to become a butterfly as to fly on sky as to become a famous poet.

While the young Republic, newly rising on its feet, was trying to modernize, on the one hand, World War II was experienced in Europe in the same years.

They saw a beautiful girl Suzan Özsöy (Belçim Bilgin) and they made a bet to write poetry.

After its release in February 2013, director Yılmaz Erdoğan's feature film Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly's Dream) was also selected by Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ömer Çelikas, as Turkey's candidate for the 2014's Academy Awards.

[5] The storyline, set in the early 1940s of Turkey, revolves around two good male friends, Rüştü Onur and Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu.