"Çalsin Sazlar" tells the story of two friends, both dreamers and easy going, who fall in love with the same girl and the resulting relationships involving passion, conflict and friendship from a fun yet naively sorrow perspective. Encompassing the tragic lives of three characters and enriched by the various depths in each of their lives, this fiction portrays a love story using a "different" approach for Turkish cinema.

Bülent is the clumsy son of a wealthy family. Besides, a lot of money is spent on him so that he is not reproached for this ineptitude. His father allows Bülent a month to end this: He will either change his ways or be cut off without a cent! While Bülent finds love in the runaway bride Esma, after all kinds of adventures on this quest, Esma's brother Davut is after them for the sake of honor.

In the midst of a night, an unexpected ferryboat approaches to the shores of a cute little town. On the deck, an inspector and his assistant - two highly commissioned authorities only assigned to very fragile cases concerning the government, scan the town from a distance.

During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave for Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi.