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The film is about a young Kurdish woman from Diyarbakır, a promising singer, who was gunned down by a man whose marriage proposal she had refused. The name of the inspirational woman this film is about, Mutlu, who miraculously survived to become a determined fighter against femicide, means "Happy" in Turkish.

Having miraculously survived male violence, Mutlu Kaya was also in İstanbul’s Maltepe on June 19, when women from all around the country protested Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention.