A hundred years after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded a secular republic on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, exiled journalist Can Dündar returns to the question of what is left of that vision. He and novelist Aslı Erdoğan, imprisoned in 2016 after a raid on a pro-Kurdish newspaper and living in Berlin since 2017, talk on camera about a press gagged and a parliament with dwindling powers. Dündar then introduces the people still fighting inside Turkey: Istanbul human rights lawyer Eren Keskin, who has spent thirty years defending Kurds and LGBT clients despite facing charges herself, Yeter Gültekin, an Alevi widow still pushing for justice over the 1993 Sivas massacre that killed her husband, and Sezgin Tanrikulu, a Kurdish opposition MP working from Ankara to keep attention on the Kurdish southeast. Interviews and on-location footage in Istanbul and Ankara trace how President Erdoğan's turn toward Islamisation has pulled the country away from Atatürk's secular blueprint, while these five figures represent what remains of the republic's democratic promise.