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Abdullah Oguz's film of Levent Kazak's screenplay tells the story of a boy of 18 who suddenly inherits a fortune. He smothers his 18th birthday cake by jumping onto it and squashing all the candles.

Driven home, drunk, by his girlfriend Emma (Wilma Elles) - in a Ferrari sports car - Ozgur (Ekin Coq) declares that he will be eating her up - later that evening.

But then he's reined in next morning by his father's lawyer, but finds true love with Elif (Nesilhan Atagul) on the cheap.

I can hear The Beatles singing their 1964 song 'Money Can't Buy Me Love'. By the end of the film arrogant Ozgur has gained the humulity and insight to understand the wisdom of what Lennon (24) & McCartney (22) from Liverpool, England were singing about in 1964, under the group name "The Beatles".

A visit to the Orphanage and the vision of Elif, whom he perceives to be his mother, completes the 18 year old's beginning on the path to wisdom and adulthood. His epiphany (which a Christian moralist expression for a sudden and almost instantantaneous growth of insight and maturity) occurs when an explosion wrecks the orphanage in the village and his mortality is appreciated.

A great film which charts the growth in human insight of a young man embarking on adult life and embracing love and another person who is no less immortal than he.