Love is Greater than life…
On one hand are those who will do anything and
everything to get what they want. And on the other
are kind people with warm hearts who believe in
the power of love.
Bitter Lands is the story of a legendary love that
begins in Istanbul during the 1970s and continues
in the fertile ands of Cukurova in southern Turkey
through the trials of evil, ambition, and tyranny.
Bitter Lands asks whether love is eternal against
the facts of life and tests the resistance of love and
goodness amid a series of turbulent events. On
these lands that have been molded with legendary
tales of bravery and epic love over the centuries,
at a period when mechanization in agriculture
is beginning to show its effects, where does the
goodness of love begin and where does evil end?
Yilmaz, who commits murder in order to protect
Zuleyha from the cruelty of her own family, and
Zuleyha who would rather die than give up on
Yilmaz who became a murderer for the sake of his
beloved, embark on a grueling escape journey...
Fate brings these passionate lovers to Adana, in
the south, where they will end up on the vast
and fruitful lands of the modern and powerful
landowner Demir who studied abroad, and his
domineering mother Hunkar.
A simple lie the runaway lovers say in order not to
be separated from each other on these lands while
looking for a way out, will turn their lives upside
down and destroy any hopes of salvation they had,
leaving them in the midst of utter turmoil.