Connor (Russell Crowe), an Australian water fortune teller who makes his living as a farmer, went to Istanbul, Turkey after the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I to try to find the remains of his three sons who died in the war. Even though he was obstructed by the military at the beginning, he was unyielding and met Aisha (Olga Kurylenko), the hostess staying in a hotel in Istanbul, and a Turkish officer who had fought against his sons. Connor seized a glimmer of hope and crossed the war-torn land to find out the truth. He survived a lot just to find out the truth about his son's death and fulfill his and his wife's wish...