Aykut Yılmaz

A man who moved away from his hometown engages in deep conversations with his friends and family while toasting, eating and celebrating life.

Cezayir Türk, a secret service assassin who served for his country, gets revenge of his brother who is sabotaged. He starts a new life by showing that he died for the sake of the state and the safety of his family. As a result of an injury that takes place on one of his operations abroad, he meets Firuze, one of the doctors without borders. Even though he misses his wife and kids, from the bottom of his heart he knows that going back to them is nearly impossible, yet this word is not in his vocabulary. He falls in love with Firuze to start their family, in the meantime, he gets exposed and had to go back to Istanbul. Neither his secondary family knows, nor did the original family who wept and prayed at his graveyard follow up the recent events happening to him. Istanbul, on the other hand, is not the same as where he left. He will do his best fighting the foreign forces, while it will also require his energy to be divided between two women who are in love with him.

The protagonist of the story, Ercüment Çözer rebels against disrespect and rudeness that we tend to avoid, ignore and eventually forget. Ercüment Çözer is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect. However, this time, he is not alone on his obsessive journey. The young lovers Helen and Savas, who have just stepped foot into the real world, find themselves in the middle of difficult situations after being mistreated by a group of people and end up being responsible for a chain of murders that take place in Istanbul. The concept of disrespect instantly turns into a social and mediatic struggle between the two generations. As for the mediatic follow up, Turkey’s most famous morning show host, Hasret will undertake it, however, nobody knows that she is also about to take part in this journey on another level. By getting to the core of this obsession, we will be witnessing the reflection it has on society.

Zembilli tells the bittersweet and gripping story of the people of a Yoruk town in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains.