When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenlygoes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep intoher strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger,who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across thecity when the western Europeans flooded into Istanbul in the sixties.According to her husband, Emine never really left behind the free lovepleasures she discovered back then and he suspects she was visiting an oldfriend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector MehmetSuleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs inthe old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has beendiscovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarreincidents be linked?