Original Title: EGO – Erkege Guven Olmaz English Title: EGO – No Trust in the Man Also Known As: Temptation Genre: Romance, Drama Episodes: 13 (each episode is 140-150 minutes) Broadcast Network: Fox Broadcast Period: 5 February 2023 – 21 May 2023 Production Company: Pastel Film Director: Doga Can Anafarta (1-3), Senol Sonmez (4-13) Screen Writer: Gulsev Karagoz, Zafer Ozer Cetinel, Gorkem Tuzun, Okan Basar Bahar, Ahmet Orcun Oksar, Erkan Birgoren, Elif Tuna Kiygi Filming Locations: Istanbul, Antalya
Synopsis
Sibel (Melisa Asli Pamuk) is a beautiful young woman who comes from a wealthy family. She is a successful businesswoman who runs a family business. She is confident, ambitious, and hardworking. She devotes herself completely to business and sacrifices her private life for the sake of her career.
The life of Sibel turns upside down when she finds out that she has only three months to have a baby. Even though she does not have any plans to get married soon, she needs to admit that she should start a family if she does not want to lose the opportunity of having a child. She knows that she cannot become a mother to any man’s child. She wants to have a real family and get married to a man whom she loves.
Sibel is affected by Erhan (Alperen Duymaz) who works as a financial analyst at the company. She thinks that Erhan is the man who can give her the real family she aims for. However, there is one problem. Erhan is engaged and he plans to get married to his fiancée soon.
Erhan is engaged to a beautiful kindergarten teacher Elif (Ruya Helin Demirbulut). The young couple loves each other very much and plans to get married soon. Their lives are disrupted by Erhan’s tragic deception.
Erhan makes a big investment in the stock market with a tip he has received from his friend. In order to find funding, he shows Elif’s family house as collateral and takes out a large amount of bank credit. However, he loses all his money after the collapse of the stock market. He is faced with a debt burden that is very difficult to pay.
Erhan cannot explain this problem to his fiancée. He thinks that it would be easier if he tries to explain this problem when he is on a business trip. For this reason, he persuades Elif to come to the business trip with him.
When Erhan explains that they have a huge amount of debt due to a stock collapse, Elif becomes devastated. They know that this amount of debt is impossible to pay. Thus, their lives turn into a nightmare. At this point in their lives, Erhan’s boss Sibel makes an offer that will change their lives forever.
Sibel comes up with an unusual strategy to win Erhan over. She states that she will pay the whole amount of the debt if Erhan accepts her condition. According to Sibel’s proposal, Erhan will stay together with Sibel for three days, he will do whatever Sibel asks for, he will keep these three days secret and never will talk about it later on.
Erhan has just one hour to make a decision. He will either accept this offer and pay all his debt or he will continue his life together with his fiancée with all this debt. Even though it is a very unusual offer, Erhan has nothing to do but accept Sibel’s offer.
EGO tv series story is about a young businesswoman Sibel who makes an offer to his employee Erhan to spend three days together in exchange for money. Will Erhan accept Sibel’s unusual offer? Will Erhan and Elif continue their relationship after Sibel’s offer as if nothing happens? What is Sibel’s unusual offer to Erhan?
Erhan has grown up with his alcoholic father after he was abandoned by his mother at the age of five. He saves his life alone by both working and studying. When he meets Elif, he thinks that she is the woman he has always wanted to marry. He gets engaged to Elif and plans to get married to her soon. Erhan works as a financial analyst at the company where Sibel works. He is a man with a bright future with his ambitious and hardworking structure in his career. Erhan makes a big investment in the stock market with a tip he receives from his friend. In order to find funding, he shows Elif’s father’s house as collateral and takes out a large amount of credit. However, he loses all his money after the collapse of the stock market.
Sibel is a beautiful young woman who comes from a wealthy family. She has a strong personality and she is fearless to stand against his father. She does not refrain from defending what she believes. She is confident, ambitious, and distant. Sibel is intelligent and hardworking and she knows her capabilities and skills. After graduating from university, Sibel wants to focus on her career even though her mother forces her to start a family. She starts a fashion branch at the family business and works so hard to prove herself in this field. She devotes herself completely to business and sacrifices her private life for the sake of her career.
Tuncay is the brother of Sibel. He is extroverted, womanizer, and unreliable He is in his 30s, married to Begum and has two daughters. He has been affected by the authority of his father. He even gets married to his wife at a young age because of his father’s force. Tuncay has an unhappy marriage and he cheats on her wife all the time. Tuncay does not get along well with his sister Sibel because he considers his sister a competitor whom he cannot beat with fair play. The life of Tuncay after he learns that he has a 5-year-old son from his ex-girlfriend. His son changes the balance within his family and his parents have longed for a grandson for a long time.
Elif is Erhan’s fiancée. She has a happy and modest life together with her father and brother. She works as a kindergarten teacher. Elif does not have high material expectations from life, neither much money nor luxury. She loves Erhan so much and dreams of having a happy life together with the man whom she loves.
Begum Koraslan (Derya Beserler):
Begum is the wife of Tuncay. She falls in love with Tuncay and gets married to him, however, she realizes soon that she is part of a project marriage. Begum has two daughters and finds herself under pressure just because she has not given birth to a baby son. She understands that she will be respected in the house only if she gives birth to a son. She has an unhappy marriage and knows that she is not loved by her husband. She is beautiful, delicate, and tough-looking.
Tahir Koraslan (Erdal Kucukkomurcu):
Tahir is the father of Sibel, Tuncay, and Senem. He has a strong character and wants everyone in the family to obey his rules. Tahir started his career by working in a small hotel in Antalya and made it bigger and bigger. Now, he is the owner of a large tourism conglomerate. He wants a grandson who can maintain his ancestry and surname.
Senem (Naz Sayiner)
Senem is the sister of Sibel. She lives in the U.S. apart from her father’s authority.
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