Original Title: Kirli Sepeti English Title: Dirty Laundry Also Known As: Genre: Comedy, Drama Episodes: 15+ (each episode is 140-150 minutes) Broadcast Network: Fox Tv Broadcast Period: September 24, 2023 – Present Production Company: Med Yapim Director: Ece Erdek Kocoglu Screenwriter: Merve Girgin Aytekin (1-6), Nermin Yildirim (7-) Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkiye
Synopsis
Songul (Ayca Bingol), Hayriye (Ceren Moray), and Medine (Cansu Tosun) are cleaners and caregivers in a rich neighborhood whose lives are spent cleaning up the messes left by others. They are invisible by many people even though they have a big role. After working all day for someone else’s family, they do not even have energy to do something for themselves.
The lives of these invisible women include happiness, sadness, and different challenges.
Songul (Ayca Bingol) is like an elder sister for all the women who are working as maids in her neighborhood. She is a good mother and a good friend. She always thinks of others before herself and forgets her own problems while lending a helping hand to others. She has two children, one daughter Ilkgul (Aleyna Ozgecen) and one son Ilkkan. After her husband left them years ago, Songul does her best to raise her children. She works as a maid of Canan (Devrim Yakut) who is a very obsessive woman.
Hayriye (Ceren Moray) is a cheerful woman who works as a maid for Yasemin (Bestemsu Ozdemir). Although she is kind-hearted, she constantly gets into trouble because she cannot keep a secret. Since she does not have a family, she considers her friends as a chosen family. She does anything for her friends and sometimes, she finds herself in difficult conditions.
Medine (Cansu Tosun) is a naive, well-intentioned, silent, and conservative woman who works as a maid for Aylin (Melisa Dongel ) and Murat (Halil Ibrahim Ceyhan). She does anything that is said to her without any complaints. She even silently endures mistreatment all the time. However, she finds herself in a dilemma of faith and honesty when she sees the betrayal of her employer. With the help of her friends, she tries to make a reasonable decision about disclosing this betrayal or not.
The lives of these invisible women change all of a sudden when one of these women tragically dies. Ilkgul tries to solve this murder case together with a journalist Kahraman (Serkay Tutuncu). They join forces to uncover the truth behind this murder and they start to develop feelings for each other.
Dirty Laundry (Kirli Sepeti) tv series story is about the tragicomic lives of cleaners in a rich neighborhood. Will Ilkgun and Kahraman manage to solve the murder case? Will Ilkgul continue to be a pride for her mother? Will Songul, Hayriye, and Medine continue to keep their work despite all the obstacles? Will Songul manage to support her family and raise her children without any problems?
Songul has been working in other people’s homes as a maid for years and raised her daughter Ilkgül and her son Ilkkan alone. Her husband left her for another woman and since then, she has done her best to raise her children properly. She is a maid of Canan with whom she has been working for a long time. Songul is a good mother and a good friend. She always thinks of others before herself and forgets her own problems while lending a helping hand to others. For this reason, she is like an elder sister for all the women who are working as maids in her neighborhood. She finds jobs and gives advice to all the other women. She has been working so hard in order to keep her job and sometimes she swallows even the deepest, dirtiest sentences, such as the dirt she cleans from morning to night.
Hayriye is a crazy and funny woman who works as a maid for Yasemin. Although she is kind-hearted, she constantly gets into trouble because she cannot keep a secret. She loves gossip. That’s why she knows lots of things and cannot stop poking her nose into everything. Hayriye has no one but her friends in life. Thus, she does anything for her friends.
Medine works as a maid for Aylin and Murat and babysits their daughter. She is a person who adheres to her traditions. She is naive, well-intentioned, and silent. She comes from a conservative family and starts to work in Istanbul to save money for her little sister’s education. After her mother’s death when she was a little child, Medine raised her sister. That’s why she has a special bond with her sister. She has to work hard and earn money to give her sister the best life. She is very silent and does anything that is said to her without any complaints. She silently endures mistreatment all the time. However, she finds herself in a dilemma of faith and honesty when she sees the betrayal of Aylin.
Kahraman is a successful journalist. He is determined and stubborn. In order to solve a murder case and collect evidence, he starts to work as a driver. There, he collaborates with Ilkgun and develops some feelings toward her. Kahraman was raised by a wealthy family after he was adopted when he was a little child. Even though he is rich now, he does not forget his past and he wants to be independent. He is humble when it comes to monetary issues.
Murat is a decent businessman who cares about his work and family. Although he cannot spend much time at home due to his work, he always dedicates some time for his baby daughter. He is married to Aylin but he does not show lots of attention toward her. When his wife has a love affair, he does not understand that. However, he trusts Medine’s word, as he always admires her innocence and faithfulness. He never looks down on Medina as an employee and he always treats her well.
Aylin is a young and beautiful woman who is an influencer. For her, the most important thing in life is her appearance. She uses social media all the time to find the attention she always wants. She sometimes does not take care of her baby daughter to upload photos to her social media accounts. She doesn’t have much of a maternal instinct. Unlike her husband Murat, she always looks down on Medina and treats her as second-class. She has a love affair even though she is married to Murat and pretends to love him. She can easily lie and manipulate her husband.
Nergis (Gozde Seda Altuner):
Nergis is a powerful woman who has two sons. She cannot stand the betrayal of husband. Her ex-husband Feyyaz gets married to Nergis’s own sister Yasemin. After then, Nergis has been blinded by revenge. She leaves her own children with their father so that they could have a living remorse for their father. When she understands that this is not enough, she starts to execute her other plans to take revenge on Feyyaz and Yasemin.
Yasemin is a beautiful woman who is Feyyaz’s wife and Nergis’ sister. She becomes the second wife of her sister’s ex-husband. After this marriage, she is excluded from her family. She loses her parents and her sister due to her marriage. She feels lonely and unhappy all the time. Yasemin loves money and fashion. Whenever she feels unhappy, she goes shopping.
Ilkgul Yildirim (Aleyna Ozgecen):
Ilkgul is the pride of her mother, Songul. She lives together with her mother in the house where her mother works as a maid. She generally helps her mother with household chores, but she never considers herself an employee. She cannot tolerate that both she and her mother are treated as second-class citizens. Even though she has discussions with her mother, she loves her mother and she admires her hard work. She becomes very close to Kahraman and collaborates with him to solve a murder case.
Feyyaz is the husband of Yasemin and ex-husband of Nergis. He tries to get a balance with his wife and his ex-wife. He wants a peaceful life but he constantly finds himself in the middle of chaos.
Canan Hanzade (Devrim Yakut):
Canan is a very obsessive woman. She doesn’t like to leave the house because she is afraid of accidents and diseases. She treats Songul as a life-time friend and does not consider her as an employee. Whenever she has a problem, she always reaches out to Songul. She has a son named Ahmet and she does anything for him.
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