In Günebakan, one of the distinguished villages of Thrace, the people pray for rain due to drought, but meteorite fragments fall from the sky unexpectedly instead of rain. After that, Günebakan, normally a quiet and isolated Thracian village, became the scene of a never-before-seen turmoil.
In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.