Plot

At a historic Istanbul hotel, a journalist is thrust into the past and must stop a plot that could change the fate of modern Turkey.

Based on the critically acclaimed Charles King novel, this series discusses the rise of modern-day Turkey, specifically, those who helped make the city into the amazing place that it is today. Esra is a journalist looking for her next big story. She sets off to visit the Pera Palace, an esteemed hotel in Istanbul known for both its intriguing history and its mysterious supernatural happenings. One fateful night, Esra is suddenly sent back to the past, finding herself in 1919. There, she meets all sorts of key figures from the past, including Mr. Halit, who isn't just the key to Esra returning to the present but is also the key to ensuring the election of Turkey's first president, Mustafa Kemal, comes to pass. How will Esra keep the past the same to prevent the future from changing?—netflix

The plot of Netflix's series, 'Midnight At The Pera Palace,' follows a young journalist who goes back in time, and suddenly all hell breaks loose. Esra, a journalist and an avid reader of Agatha Christie novels (as she mentions in every possible conversation), wants to write about various global concerns, but her editor forces her to stick to the click-bait. She was asked to write about the Pera Palace on its 130th anniversary in one such briefing. She meets Ahmet, the hotel manager, who familiarizes her with the history of the hotel. Ahmet speaks of the various occurrences that took place 100 years ago as if he were a witness to their history. When rain started pouring heavily, Ahmet invites Esra to stay at the hotel. Before midnight, she finds a key next to her bed and believes that Ahmet left the key to the door of the room where Agatha Christie stayed. Overjoyed with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Esra enters the room and collapses on the bed with the key in her hand. Just as the clock strikes 12, there's an sudden earthquake and Esra is transported to a different era. So begins Esra's journey through history, though the consequences of maneuvering space and time can never be good, can it?—Srijoni Rudra

"Midnight at the Pera Palace" is adapted from the award-winning non-fiction book of the same name written by Charles King. The series depicts a young journalist, Esra's encounter with the legendary Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul. When Esra is assigned to write a piece about the hotel, she accidentally discovers that one of the historic rooms is a portal to the year 1919. Thrust into the past, she lands in the middle of a political conspiracy against the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Together with Ahmet, the quirky hotel manager, Esra must protect the course of history and the future of Turkey. But Istanbul in 1919 is a dangerous place, and when Esra meets Halit, the handsome and mysterious owner of Istanbul's wildest club, she realizes that in the Istanbul of 1919, nothing is as it seems and no one is who they say they are.