The Bastard Of Istanbul

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion'; she announces. She is nineteen years old; and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life; and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later; Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41; so it is a house of women; among them her beautiful; rebellious mother; Zeliha; clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow; Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay; long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.