13-year-old Fidan’s mother Serap is terminally ill and spends her days in hospitals. Her father Emir, a truck driver, has a hard time accepting his wife’s illness and gradually withdraws into his own shell. Fidan, who is extremely intelligent, ranks first in the Anatolian and Science High School experimental exams held throughout the province. Since she dreams of becoming a doctor in the future and curing people with incurable diseases like her mother, she realizes that she needs to be educated in a good school. With the support of her math teacher and her aunt Nesrin, Fidan takes the exam and gets accepted to a renowned high school in Istanbul with the highest score, but unfortunately, her mother passes away before she can give the good news. Fidan’s brother Ali is not old enough to comprehend what death means. On the other hand, her father Emir drifts deeper and deeper into a state of disappearance after the death of his wife and loses his sense of responsibility towards his family. Even though so young, with a sense of sacrifice unique to women, Fidan thinks that it will be difficult to leave her father and brother behind if she goes to Istanbul to study in this boarding school. She hides the fact that she is accepted into this school from everyone, including her aunt Nesrin who took her under her wing. Meanwhile, the deadline for school enrollment is approaching. Should Fidan go to the school that will open the doors to a bright future for her? In a land where the most powerful women in the world live and where miracles can happen despite everything, this story is about only one sapling which belongs to the millions of trees, under whose shade we sit today.
