- An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try to locate his three missing sons.
- An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try to locate his three missing sons reported missing in action, where he forges a relationship with the beautiful Turkish woman who owns the hotel in which he stays. Holding onto hope, he must travel across the war-torn landscape with the help of a Turkish Officer, himself a veteran of the battles.—Rose
- After the Battle of Gallipoli, an Australian farmer named Connor (Russell Crowe) is devastated to learn that his three sons have been killed in the melee, so he travels to Turkey to locate and retrieve their bodies for burial. While there, he discovers the possibility that one of his sons is alive and being held as a prisoner of war..
- Four years after the Battle of Gallipoli, Australian farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) travels to Turkey to find his three sons, who never returned home from the war. When he arrives in Istanbul, he meets others who have also suffered losses: hotelier Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko) and her son Orhan, who befriends Connor; and Major Hasan (Yilmaz Erdogan), a Turkish officer who fought against Connor's sons and might now be their father's only hope in finding closure.
- Tough Aussie farmer and veteran Joshua Connor uses his divining rod gift and toils his tail off to create a ranch in the Outback for himself, wife and three wonderful sons. When the Geat War requires colonial troops for the British imperial front, first born Art promises to mind his brothers Edward and Hnery, but neither returns from the extremely bloody Gallipoli front. Their mother forces Joshua to play along in blind denial, but finally drowns herself, without absolute certainty. Now he leaves his farm behind and ships to Turkey, which is painfully emerging from the ruins of the defeated Ottoman empire. The Allied authorities in Istanbul tell the civilian to return home, but he finds discrete advise in the family he's craftily dragged to by half-orphan Orhan, whose mother Ayshe must accept the enemy guest as her brother in law and guardian Omer realizes they can't afford to turn away rich foreigners. He stubbornly works his way to the killing field and finds two sons' corpses by divining rod, but Arthur was put on a virtually lethal caravan inland. Hvaing won the respect of Turkish Kemalist (nationalist) Major Hasan, he manages to join his men, who turned on 'collaborator' Omer, by train to fight off the Greek invasion, with unlikely outcome.—KGF Vissers
- Four years after the Battle of Gallipoli and after losing his wife, Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) leaves Australia for Turkey to look for his sons, soldiers in the battle. Upon arriving in Istanbul a young boy, Orhan (Dylan Georgiades), brings him to a hotel managed by his mother Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko). Meanwhile in Gallipoli Major Hasan Bey (Yilmaz Erdogan) and his aide Sergeant Jemal (Cem Yilmaz) arrive at the request of the British War Graves Unit to help them locate the fallen. The British authorities deny Joshua a permit to enter Gallipoli. Joshua gets closer to Orhan until one day Ayshe tells him how to get to Gallipoli without a permit. Detained upon arrival in Gallipoli and ordered to leave, Joshua doesn't go back to Istanbul but instead stays on the beach at Gallipoli. The ranking officer Lt.Col. Hughes (Jai Courtney) then welcomes Joshua to search for his sons in the field. On an excavation day Hasan walks with Joshua retelling the chronology of a battle night there. It's revealed that Joshua's three sons Art (Ryan Corr), Ed (James Fraser), and Henry (Ben O'Toole) are gunned down there. When a soldier finds a skull shot at the back of the head, this provokes Joshua into attacking Hasan. Hasan instead then reveals that Art was taken prisoner and may still be alive. Searching furter back in Istanbul, Joshua hits a dead end but gets even closer to Ayshe and Orhan.
Ayshe performs a local fortune telling method with Joshua's coffee, but when she is done she refuses to tell him what the coffee revealed about him. Joshua steps in to help Ayshe as her husband's brother Omer (Steve Bastoni), who eagerly asks her hand in marriage, starts hitting her. Omer tries to exact revenge but Jemal comes for Joshua. Hasan explains that Art may have been taken to Afyon. That night Joshua dreams of Art and knows he is still alive. The British army is determined to send Joshua back home, but Joshua evades capture and joins Hasan and Jemal and the Turk Army to infiltrate Afyon in Anatolia. The group is ambushed by Greek militants just outside of Afyon. Jemal dies to protect Hasan and Joshua, who then escape on horses. Spying a windmill that follows his own design, Joshua knows Art would have built it, and finally finds him. Art refuses to go with him due to his guilt over his brothers' deaths. The Greeks arrive and start to shell the village. Hasan bids them farewell. Art rushes to a hilltop to show Joshua an escape path but refuses to follow him. Joshua talks to him and Art relents, so that the two escape together. Back at Istanbul Joshua finds Ayshe who isn't surprised that he has returned.
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