Ayşen Sezerel

as Aydan

Dicle is a young woman from a modest background who has always dreamed of becoming a writer, filling notebooks with stories she is too afraid to show anyone. Her best friend, a fiery aspiring actress, drags her into the orbit of Istanbul’s film and television industry, where dreams are manufactured and crushed in the same breath. As Dicle lands a job as a script assistant on a popular series, she finds herself navigating a world of dazzling egos, sexual politics, and the relentless pressure to compromise her voice for commercial success. At the same time, a forbidden attraction to the show’s married lead actor threatens to derail everything she has worked for. “Hayaller ve Hayatlar” — dreams and lives — examines the gap between the stories we tell ourselves and the messy, painful, beautiful realities we actually live. A compelling drama about ambition, female friendship, and the price of chasing a dream in a city that eats dreamers for breakfast.

as Neriman Yılmaz

When a poor widow and her children are summoned from a small town to a mansion on the Bosphorus, they step into a viper’s nest where every smile masks a scheme. The disabled heir of the Karacay family becomes both a weapon and a pawn in a ruthless power struggle, and Seher quickly learns that in this city, mercy is the fastest way to ruin.

as Asiye German

Korkut Ali has spent his life as an outsider — raised in Germany by foster families who never truly loved him, he carries a bullet lodged in his brain from a shooting that gave him less than a year to live. With nothing to lose, he travels to Istanbul to find the birth parents who abandoned him, only to discover that his mother is a famous singer named Gönül, who has another son, Tolga, whom she raised in comfort and fame. The betrayal burns, and Korkut finds himself torn between a desperate hunger for his mother’s love and a furious need for revenge. Into this storm steps Ceylan, a naive fashion designer who has spent years nursing an unrequited love for Tolga, unaware that the man who will truly change her life is the dying stranger with vengeance in his eyes. As Korkut’s clock runs down, he must decide whether to spend his final months destroying the family that rejected him or building something beautiful with the woman who has shown him what love actually looks like. A sweeping, tragic romance that asks whether a life cut short can still be made whole.