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Leyla, a beautiful and feisty middle-aged woman, lives with her mother, whose nagging has become everyday background music. The two women fight shamelessly and cruelly, and in protest against her mother Leyla makes choices that even she herself finds a bit startling. Ahmet is a taxi driver, years younger than Leyla and confused after his father’s death. He still has to report his every step to his mother and obey his uncle who is the head of the family.

Dark Blue Night tells the story of the socio-economic distress of the low-income working class in Turkey. Semih, pursues his dream of becoming a footballer, unlike his friends who become miners. Unable to find a job in a club, he starts having difficulties, falls into deep credit debt. Married and having a daughter, Semih’s only pillar is his father Kazım, a retired miner and union representative. Although his father forbade him due to having been lost his other son in a mine accident, he starts to work as miner. Soon after Semih loses his arm during an accident. The mine owners offer to pay blood money. Semih first leans towards this idea that everybody else accepts, with the death of his father, his mind is changed. His unstable mood also causes conflicts with his wife. She leaves home. On the one hand, Semih pursues his legal struggle and on the other, he works hard to get his family back.

Onların da aşkı masallar gibiydi ve evlendiler. Yani masallara göre sona geldiler… Adem'le Didem birbirlerini hala sevmektedirler. Ama evlilik, Adem'in sevgisini ve ilgisini açığa çıkartma reflekslerini köreltmiştir. Didem ise özgüveni ve özgür iradesi elinden alınmış mutsuz bir kadına dönüşmüştür. Tek tutunduğu onu yeniden hayata döndürecek işidir. Adem'i hala çok seviyordur. Kocasının peşinden ailesini, dostlarını, kariyerini bırakarak daha önce sadece haritalarda gördüğü şehirlere bile yerleşmekte tereddüt etmeyen Didem, şimdi aynı fedakarlığı Adem'den bekler. İşte tam bu sırada başka bir masalın prensi hikayemize girer. Artık uyanma vakti gelmiştir…

Arka Sıradakiler is the title of a Turkish teen drama series, created by Birol Güven and directed by Hamdi Alkan. Meaning "those at the rear desks", name of the series was attributed to a group of forsaken students whose experiences are taken as subject of the storyline. The series began broadcast on September 30, 2007 on Fox Turkey. It is aired weekly on Sundays at 19:45.