While working at a sleep lab in Germany, Rosemarie Ramee, a 38-year-old American neurologist, falls in love with Aslan, a 11-year-old Turkish Cypriot. To get closer to the boy, RR undertakes a 'marriage of convenience' to the boy's uncle. But when the uncle suddenly disappears, Ramee, alone with Aslan, must take the boy to his relatives in Cyprus.