After the death of his loved ones, the Ottoman financial official Ali Riza asks for a position in a remote province and urgently goes there in order to escape from his grief in a foreign land. Soon he marries, and children are born one after another. Ali Riza understands that she can no longer travel around the country and settles in Istanbul. As the children grow up, Ali Riza is increasingly visited by thoughts of old age. But the autumn of life creeps up too imperceptibly, and Ali Riza finds himself in confusion - he does not know how to live now and what to do...

Translation by L. Medvedko.