Akil (KIL), a quiet and depressed young man sees suicide as an solution though he never succeeds in pulling it off. A chance encounter brings him face to face with the "Life Action Bureau" or LAB, an organization that will help him end his life. But after being bound to LAB's terms and conditions, he meets pretty and vivacious Zara with whom he eventually falls in love with and gives him a reason to live. The new Akil who embraces life must now race against time to undo what he has set in motion before he gets killed.
心靈封閉已久的中年教師戈列格里斯，無意間在書店發現葡萄牙作家普拉多的 隨筆《文字煉金師》，被書中充滿哲思的文字吸引，毅然拋下井然有序的生活，展開探索心靈、尋找生命終極答案的旅程……在里斯本，戈列格里斯探訪普拉多的生平，一步步重建這位非凡醫生、天才作家的影像，揭開葡萄牙獨裁政權時期的一段隱秘的黑暗。在一步步走近了解普拉多的同時，格列格里斯也檢視自己，重新找回生活的節奏和意義。
Last days of 1941 summer, the era of Obligation, during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War. In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil, there are two poets in their early twenties: Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur. They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in their lungs and love of poetry in their hearts for years. Two poets who have the constant habit of making bets on things that they do not own, make a bet on a beautiful girl. They will both write a poem for her and whichever Suzan likes, the other will fade from the scene..