THE STORY
After the major robbery he committed in Bursa Grand Bazaar, 24-year-old tour guide Gökhan Yıldırım, who was hiding in Uludağ, had to escape from the hotel where he stayed due to both attracting the attention of the gendarmerie and being pursued by a mysterious deer. As our hero tries to leave the mountain on the longest night of the year, his escape plan is foiled when he faces the following deer. In an attempt to protect himself, Gökhan tries to scare the deer away with his gun, but accidentally shoots the deer when Eyüp, a strange-looking and aggressive man following them, appears.
Gökhan, who loses consciousness after being attacked by Eyüp, a man who has lived alone in the mountains with his dogs and has not ventured among people for years, realizes that he is a captive of a dog named Asa when he opens his eyes again. Learning from Eyüp that according to the “Ulular” legend, he has extinguished the lineage of a deer unique to Uludağ, Gökhan realizes that he must pay for his sin with his life and understands that he must also escape from Eyüp.
Using the Bursa knife, the only thing left from his theft, Gökhan manages to escape from captivity but fatally wounds Eyüp. Although he manages to survive for a while using his skills, a fugitive racehorse he encounters causes him to get lost in the dark side of the mountain.
In cold and sudden thick fog, Gökhan, searching for a way to escape, starts to be “disturbed” by voices that cannot be determined whether they come from the beyond or the mountain. Unbeknownst to anyone of his disappearance, our hero gets closer to the heart of danger and the brink of death with every step he takes.
Taking refuge in a stone structure he encounters during his struggle for survival, Gökhan has a dream in which he is entrusted with a baby deer. When he wakes up and meets the gaze of a baby deer that seems to guide him, Gökhan starts to follow the animal, believing that he can survive with its guidance. After a while, Gökhan reaches a deserted mountain village called Gökeren, unaware that humans are forbidden to enter.
Instead of saving his life, Gökhan puts himself in even more danger when he enters the village, trying to hide from the people, animals, and “things” that are chasing him. He loses the deer and descends into a hidden cave inside the village. Following the flowing water in the underground cave bed, Gökhan discovers a great secret: There are not four but five seasons on Earth!
Throughout history, whenever it appears, the Fifth Season, which causes massive destruction and balances life on the planet, has been repeatedly prevented by the “Ulular” and the “Season Guardians” at high costs in the region’s thousands of years of history. The most recent of these costs was paid in 1999 when the Spring season’s guardian, Eyüp’s wife, and Gökhan’s mother (!!), İpar, took her own life. Gökhan, who was abandoned at the “Geyikli Baba” shrine when he was forty days old, returned to the mountain years later as a thief, killed the last Ulu deer, and violated the greatest rule of the Fifth Season.
Finding his past in a treacherous village in Uludağ, which he has been searching for in the city for years, Gökhan is now responsible for his future and an entire mountain’s. Believing that by pursuing the baby deer, he believes be the last Ulu, and if he can save it, he can prevent the Fifth Season; our hero will awaken Uludağ and much more with what he will do in pursuit of this cause!
