The movie starts in Zonguldak, in 1941. While two young poet Muzaffar Tayyip Uslu (Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ) and Rüştü Onur (Mert Fırat) continue their civil service life in this newly modernized mining city, they also live together with art, literature, and most poetry, they have a dream to become a butterfly as to fly on sky as to become a famous poet. While the young Republic, newly rising on its feet, was trying to modernize, on the one hand, World War II was experienced in Europe in the same years. In a society where poetry and art have not yet matured, these two tuberculosis young people are trying to make all segments of society love poetry. They saw a beautiful girl Suzan Özsöy (Belçim Bilgin) and they made a bet to write poetry. Whoever's she prefers, wins the bet. Suzan likes Rustu's poem but Muzaffar wins the heart of Suzan. Muzaffer falls in love with Suzan. Suzan, who is still a high school student, becomes close friends with the two young people, despite her family's disapproval. But tuberculosis, the plague of the 1940s, is increasingly threatening the health of both young people. Muzaffer and Onur both suffer from tuberculosis. Rustu becomes very ill and admits to the hospital, Where he meets a girl Mediha Sessiz (Farah Zeynep Abdullah) who was also struggling with her illness, and falls for her.