Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin-Wedding. Despite countless applications, she can't find an apprenticeship and isn't even invited to an interview. The only option left is to help out at her family's bakery. She wants to celebrate her 18th birthday with her best friends and just let loose for once. This night will change her life forever. Hazal flees into a life in a foreign land: alone and on her own in the megacity of Istanbul.

Ellbogen, the film adaptation of Fatma Aydemir’s bestselling novel, portrays a young woman searching for her place in the world. A woman with dreams, but without the same opportunities to realize them. A woman who fights for recognition and constantly has to assert and prove herself, yet one that is too strong, too angry, and too uncompromising to accept the role of a victim. She runs through the night, gasping for air, fighting to survive. (CS)