Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly basis, the undertone of the story leads to an eventual duel between Behzat Ç. and the rotten department officials and bureaucrats.

Selahattin is a math teacher in his 40s. He has a passion for poetry, lives alone on the lower floor of an apartment building, and is in platonic love with Ms. Alev, who lives on the top floor. He writes poems on scraps of paper and deposits them secretly in her mailbox, but his life soon spins out of control when duplicitous family members try to extort money from him for their business.