A nomadic herdsman embroiled in an ancient blood feud decides to take his flock of sheep to Ankara and sell off his family’s most essential assets. Along the way, some of the sheep die and others are stolen. When he arrives in the city, he receives far less money than he was originally promised, and his family suffers a fatal loss. Güney remains focused on the injustices of society in a screenplay that was crafted in a room he shared with eighty other prisoners. The one cinema that attempted to screen the film was shut down after a bomb attack, lending further mythic status to Güney as a true revolutionary of the New Turkish Cinema.