One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctors surgery. I need to have an abortion she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kazanci men die in their early forties so its a house of women among them Asyas beautiful rebellious mother who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asyas cousin comes to stay long-hidden family secrets connected with Turkeys turbulent past begin to emerge.