In a city under occupation, love takes many forms — some tender, some vengeful, all unforgettable. Each soul, caught between desire and duty, walks its own path through the ruins of an empire.

A city once radiant now trembles beneath the boots of foreign soldiers. Behind the flickering lights of Pera’s grand avenues, hearts shatter as swiftly as empires fall.

Amid the ruins of a dying world, love endures — fragile, defiant, and often doomed.
Keriman, an impossibly romantic young girl, chases her childhood love Hristo, losing herself in a passion that destiny will not allow.
Cemile, resolute and courageous, driven by love for her homeland, sets out on the perilous roads of Anatolia to join the independence fighters.
Larissa, a White Russian ballerina who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution, arrives in Istanbul with vengeance in her heart — yet the city’s sorrow mirrors her own.
Orhan, carefree and impulsive, is drawn to Larissa as though by fate itself — their entwined destinies ignite a chain of events that will touch every life around them.
Cihan, a man of principles and dignity, loves a woman he cannot claim; his unwavering devotion becomes his torment.
Mehpare, the weary matriarch, clings to her family as the world unravels around her.
And Agafya, cursed by love itself, drifts as a shadow through the sorrows of others.

In occupied Istanbul, the nights of Pera shimmer with the illusion of joy — jazz music, foreign tongues, clinking glasses — while across the sea, Anatolia burns with the fire of independence. Between these two worlds, a single promised gift weaves destinies together, a fragile thread of hope and destruction alike.

As borders shift and loyalties blur, love and vengeance merge until neither can be distinguished. When a nation rises from its ashes, it carries with it the smoke of memories — of those who loved, who fought, and who were left behind in silence.

Over twelve turbulent years, these intertwined lives bear witness to devastation beyond imagining, where love and loss leave their indelible mark.