Daniel, a shy physics teacher with no social life, buys a ring from an attractive street hawker, July. She swears the ring will bring him good fortune in love and, indeed, that same evening, Daniel falls head over heels in love with a beautiful girl called Melek, and decides to follow her to Istanbul. When he is unable to get a seat on the plane, he sets out by car from Hamburg to Turkey. Just before getting on the motorway, he picks up the sorry figure of a hitch-hiker, keen to get out of town as soon as possible: July. On this wild odyssey through south-eastern Europe, Daniel will discover a new self. He will be beaten up, seduced, he will take drugs for the first time and be busted by Turkish border guards, but through all this he will learn to fight for his happiness and, in the end, he will discover that the laws of physics don't always apply in the real world.