A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’ shoulders, five girls from the same family trigger a little scandal with unpredictable consequences. As this episode rushes them out of childhood, their home becomes a wife plant with security isolation. Every outburst of their femininity is answered by the erection of higher walls. The girls are beaten and bonded into marriage. Lale, the youngest, refuses anything that threatens her liberty. Her drive for freedom culminates in a trial of strength with her growingly conservative family. It turns out that the obsession for these virtue parallels a sexual obsession, and once they discover this, the remaining girls make an epic attempt to break free.