Ahmet Davutoglu is the subject: a former academic at Marmara and Beykent universities who becomes chief adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and is appointed Foreign Minister in May 2009. Correspondent Rageh Omaar follows Davutoglu's case for Turkey as an emerging regional power, built on the country's historical and geographic ties to Arabs, Kurds, Persians, Central Asians, and Caucasians. The film lays out Turkey's position straddling the Mediterranean and Black Sea, bridging Europe and Asia, and holding simultaneous membership in NATO and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. It examines how Davutoglu frames secularism and democracy as compatible with an Islamic identity, and how that combination distinguishes Turkey from its neighbors during a period of regional instability. Interviews and analysis trace the shift from Davutoglu's academic writing on strategic depth to his role shaping actual foreign policy, and consider what a more independent, self-directed Turkish foreign policy could mean for the balance of power across the Middle East.