In Another Life follows the story of Zehra, a 22-year-old young woman born into a strict Turkish family in Berlin. Forbidden from going to school and forced into an arranged marriage, she falls in love with Kadir and becomes pregnant. When she tries to elope with him, her family hunts her down for dishonouring them and leaves her half-dead on a roadside, with her baby gone.
While recovering in hospital, Zehra identifies herself as a missing woman who looks exactly like her: Hande Kurdoğlu, who disappeared seven years earlier.
Welcomed by Hande’s wealthy family in Istanbul, she begins a new life in a luxurious mansion. But as Zehra grows closer to Genco, Hande’s childhood sweetheart, she also begins to suspect that Hande’s mother is hiding a dark secret. Determined to uncover the truth, Zehra sets out to discover what really happened to the girl whose life she is now living.
