Despite many attempts, Can is unable to devote himself to anything other than a career in crime, as a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan. Hakan keeps his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Can's lover Jale who works in the warehouse of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up his activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his own. But Can has little control over the pressure that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand...—L.H. Wong
Can is a drug dealer in Berlin. He sees no way to change his situation until his supplier Hakan offers him to run a bar, but then Hakan is shot. Abandoned by his girlfriend Jale, Can is then arrested and sentenced to four years in prison.