American Julia and Frenchwoman Jasmine are middle-aged women who meet during a flight from Paris to Los Angeles. Their friendship continues on earth and it turns out that Julia's father is also Jasmine's father and where he grew up, gold coins are hidden. The sisters decide to find this gold and go to the Turkish province of Van. With great difficulty, resorting to the help of a guy named Sarkis, who is in love with Jasmine, they manage not only to find and obtain wealth, but also to take it out of the country. The story is told in places from the point of view of gene carriers - the germ cells of the characters.