It's 1984 and life is quiet for 17-year-old Osman; the summer is winding down and he is preparing for school to start up. But then, at a traditional wedding celebration, Osman meets Leyla, the girl who steals his heart. Theirs is no ordinary relationship, as their lives are soon turned upside down by the Communist regime ruling Bulgaria. As an ethnic group, Turks are about to be erased, their names and cultural identities stripped from them at gunpoint with the swipe of a Communist pen. Osman needs to flee for his life; he needs to search for a crack in the curtain.