Amidst the journalism, Young Turk partisanship, and other events that ravaged the country before the Second Constitutional Era, Adnan, a law student living with his mother in Aksaray, becomes a teacher at a pasha's mansion to teach the pasha's daughter Süheyla through the mediation of a friend. Despite his pro-freedom ideas, Adnan wins the pasha's favor with his morality and honesty. While he intends to marry Süheyla, he meets Belkıs Hanım, the daughter of another pasha known for his corruption and disliked by the people, but who is married to perhaps the only beardless, mustache-less officer in the army. known for corruption and disliked by the people, but married to perhaps the only beardless officer in the army. Confused, Adnan abandons the idea of marrying Süheyla. However, he is only a teacher to Belkıs. Based on the novel of the same name by Mithat Cemal Kuntay.