It is a movie about time. The rhythm of time is the rhythm of the movie. It is a movie about three children captured by the flow of time in a village stuck between earth and sea, rocks and sky. ? Reha Erdem Omer, Yakup and Yildiz are on the cusp of adolescence. Omer is the son of the village imam, who he wants dead. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and when he catches his father gazing at her, he too wishes death upon his father. Yidiz is forced to be a household manager as well as a student, learning the hard way about the true nature of the relationship between men and women. With each of the day`s five calls to prayer, a different fear, pain, desire, passion and hatred is exposed, illustrating the march of time toward maturity for the kids, and tragedy found within that process.