Toward the middle of the 17th century, the Ottoman Empire is still at the apex of its power...
Mehmed
IV’s ascent to the throne at the age of six, however, greatly
intensifies the struggles for power and control in the Sultan’s court.
In a world dominated by men, two intelligent, beautiful and ambitious
women wage an open war. The young Sultan’s grandmother and his mother
fight over the regency: a severe battle in which all means are allowed
to make sure only one of them would come out victorious. Who will
overcome her adversary?
Will it be the experienced Kösem
Mahpeyker, who has pulled the strings of power covertly during the reign
of five sultans? Or the tenacious Turhan Hatice, who became Queen
Mother at only twenty years of age?
All of this takes place
against the background of a panoramic view of the Ottoman Empire and one
of its most secretive parts: the Sultan’s harem, an enigmatic place in
the heart of the palace that houses hundreds of beautiful girls, where
fiery passions and monstrous manipulations and intrigues determine the
future. The harem is a veritable oasis of love but also of debauchery,
of friendships but also of betrayals, of rises to but also of falls from
power.
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