Middle aged man's much younger wife dies in childbirth. He takes her body back to her village and buries her next to her mother. Her father objects which leads to violence. The father and the girl's rapist suffer and our guy walks away. He's driving home and he becomes distracted by his wife's appearance in the passenger seat of his car. Is it because he is distraught or because he's high on drugs? We don't know. In any case he forgets what he is doing and the car flips over and our man is injured.
The movie opens with the car wreck, so we don't know what happened before that, but we do find out eventually. Now our guy is dreaming about his wife, dreams that are facilitated by the pain pills he is taking because of the injuries he received in the car wreck.
A couple of guys drive up from Istanbul, pick him up from the hospital and take him back to town for a meeting with the Boss. The Boss is not too happy about having his car wrecked or the hospital bills our guy has run up, but offers to let him work it off. He can start by finding a guy. So now he has a mission, money to work with, a nice house to stay in, a couple of thugs and a lovely young woman to help him.
Our guy is kind of a Hercule Poirot or a Sherlock Holmes. He's a quiet thinker who lets his minions do the leg work while he schmoozes with a variety of curious folks. He's not a James Bond type of guy.
Near the end there is a big shootout between two groups of thugs and our guy goes upstairs to confront The Boss. He's been popping pills left right and center for the last few hours and when he walks into The Boss's office, the patterns in the Persian carpet on the floor start moving, it's quite the scene.
A little later they show us a view of two people sitting in the front of his car when he flips it. The two are kissing, her hair, the draw strings for his hood, and anything loose in the car can be seen flying around while the car is rolling over. Through it all they don't break their kiss. Of course, she's not really there and this is all just in his mind. Kudos to the special effects folks for arranging that shot.
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