SYNOPSIS

A messenger named Kemal brings a letter to the Queen mother and in the Harem he notices a beautiful girl called Çeşmidil. This developes into a reciprocal passion and Çeşmidil decides to escape and she wants to stop Çeşmidil to do something that will endanger her life but Çeşmidil will not listen to her.

On the otherhand, the Chief  Eunuch Sümbül is secretly in love with Gülbeden. (It is a historical fact that the Chief Eunuchs in Harem might fall in love in platonic or other ways with females whom they are in charge of protecting  from men contact.) He does not wish at all that marvellous Gülbeden comes to the attention of Sultan. Alas, one day the Sultan sees her and is no longer indifferent to her beauty.

The Queen mother does not like the interest of the Sultan in Gülbeden, as she thinks that Gülbeden is a little intelligent and that their unity may prove dangerous for her ambitions. She sees to it that the Janissaries are provoked to rebel against the Sultan.

The Sultan orders the Chief Eunuch that Gülbeden is prepared and presented to him. Chief Eunuch Sümbül Agha is obliged to obey the imperial order.

We see Kemal and Çeşmidil in Kanlıca. Çeşmidil is uneasy about the fate of Gülbeden and would like to go back. But when she arrives in the Harem she finds out that the Queenmother is furious and wants to expel her from the Palace most definetly. She should be only grateful that her punishment will not be more severe than this.

Queenmother is not only angry about Çeşmidil but she is also mad about the love affair between the Sultan and Gülbeden. By her cunning intrigues she manages to get the Sultan and her new favourite to be imprisoned in the Çinili Köşk ( The Kiosque or little palace with faiences or Ottoman tiles), on the ground that the Sultan is no longer capable of taking wise decisions as he is a weakling and womanizer and not able to rule the whole empire properly.

Sümbül Agha wants to save Gülbeden as she is completely innocent and has nothing to do with the power struggle but he fails again and feels utterly desperate.

He can only allow the girls in the Harem to see Gülbeden as they beseech him to let them visit her. Kemal and Çeşmidil, however are the lucky ones. They got married and have an unexpected bliss which seems to promise to last.

Queenmother finally gets what she wants. The Janissaries decide to get rid of the Sultan put to the throne a young prince. The Sultan is aware of the fact that his death is signed but he does not fear this fatality.

The Janissaries enter the Kiosque where the Sultan is imprisoned. They find a magnificient Ottoman not exactly what the Queenmother has been expecting…

This is only a magic moment in the Ottoman history whic had many such suprises and whether the Sultan survived this rebellion is up to the imagination of the spectator.