Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter in a tough Turkish neighborhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan. Jale works in the warehouse of a department store and has been pressing him to give up his life of petty crime. The two see a bright new beginning when Hakan offers Can the chance to run a bar, but it seems impossible to escape the confines of aggression and mistrust in this compressed urban microcosm. Director Arslan creates a static and claustrophobic Berlin of run-down industrial courtyards and dark hallways to portray a state of mind mirrored in its social milieu.