The Garage

In an Istanbul auto body shop, mechanics Yılmaz and Müjdat panic after an elderly neighbor named Vamık collapses and dies while they are trying to move his car following a parking dispute with local real estate broker Kayhan. Convinced they will be accused of murder, Müjdat suggests concealing the corpse inside a workshop drum: "Maybe he'll dissolve in the barrel. And he won't stink." latestnetflix.com's take is that meanwhile, an agent representing a developer repeatedly visits the garage, demanding they sell their property because it is the only remaining lot on the street.

A regular visitor to the garage is Ayhan, Kayhan's associate, along with his sister Aynur, for whom Yılmaz harbors quiet affection. When Aynur stops by with vehicle trouble, Yılmaz tends to her car and serves her tea brewed with cloves and cinnamon, while Müjdat teases him about her frequent visits.

The morning after hiding the corpse, Yılmaz discovers a primed car part coated in an iridescent, remarkably vibrant paint finish. Müjdat had prepared the paint using turpentine drawn straight from Vamık's barrel. When Ayhan inspects the finish and searches online, he explains that turpentine absorbed the blood and sulfur from the corpse, remarking, "So you can only paint one car with one fresh dead body." Horrified by the idea of profiting from a corpse, Yılmaz orders the body buried immediately, stating, "We're going to bury Mr. Vamık tonight. Then we're going to pray for forgiveness for the rest of our lives."

Aynur returns to the shop reporting an issue with her brakes, but Yılmaz inspects them briefly and tells her, "The brakes are rock-solid, Aynur. No issues." Shortly after driving off, Aynur collides with a truck. At the hospital, a doctor informs them that the shattered windshield blinded Aynur, and that her only cure is a specialized half-million-dollar surgery available in the United States.

Guilt-stricken because he failed to properly check her brakes, Yılmaz resolves to raise the surgical fee by reproducing the corpse-derived paint finish at twenty-five thousand dollars per car. He summons Ayhan back to the garage, insisting, "Now we find the money. We have to."

Yılmaz, Müjdat, Ayhan, Kayhan, and their acquaintance Garfish begin exhuming newly buried corpses from local cemeteries under cover of night: "Dig, extract, carry, put in the barrel, paint the car, bring it back, bury…" To soothe their consciences, Garfish ritually washes and prays over each body before returning it to the earth. During one run, police stop them outside a bakery, but the group diverts suspicion by claiming they are waiting for morning prayer.

Word of the custom paint spreads quickly, drawing wealthy customers and filling the workshop's safe. Soon after, a local criminal named Gürdal arrives to demand extortion money, announcing, "We are 'they.'" That night, Gürdal's henchmen break in and empty the workshop safe.

The mechanics track the thieves to a rooftop where a brawl breaks out. During the scuffle, Kayhan throws Gürdal over the building ledge. Believing he has committed murder and that their money is lost, Kayhan despairs, while Ayhan proposes accepting an order for twenty fleet cars that would require exhuming twenty more bodies.

Refusing to disturb more graves, Yılmaz decides instead to surrender the workshop. When the developer's envoy arrives for his fourth visit, Yılmaz demands six hundred thousand dollars. The buyer agrees, and Yılmaz hands over the entire sum to fund Aynur's surgery and travel expenses.

Before departing, Aynur meets Yılmaz for tea near the shore, thanking him for restoring her will to live and kissing him before saying goodbye. That evening, the crew throws a farewell party at the garage. Police officers arrive, but rather than investigating Gürdal's fall, they display a photograph of Vamık, revealing he was a fugitive serial killer who used a saw and evaded authorities for twenty years.

The next morning, after Aynur, Ayhan, and Kayhan leave for the airport, Yılmaz and Müjdat discover the real estate office completely cleared out and locked. Müjdat checks Facebook and finds that Aynur, Ayhan, Kayhan, and their associate Meral have all blocked them.

Examining the sequence of events, the entire ordeal was an elaborate confidence game orchestrated by Ayhan and Kayhan. Flashbacks reveal that Aynur never lost her sight, the doctor and hospital bystanders were hired actors from a casting agency, and Gürdal's crew was paid seven hundred and fifty liras each to stage the rooftop brawl and fake fall.

Left with neither money nor their garage, Yılmaz and Müjdat face criminal proceedings and receive a one-year prison sentence under Article 151/1 of the Turkish Penal Code. Sitting together, Yılmaz reflects on the deception: "They played us like a fiddle, Müjdat."

At the site of their former body shop, the developer's agent arrives accompanied by a cameraman, disclosing that they recorded the mechanics digging up graves. Brandishing the surveillance footage, the envoy demands they resume producing paint for the boss, warning, "This is just the beginning."