How Do You Write Poems? The Dinner Conversation Turns to Love, Head Scarves, and Suicide Summary

As Ka and Kadife passed the National Theater, they saw students, unemployed and the well dressed - all of whom did not let the snow deter them from attending this big event. Ka felt another poem emerging, so went directly to his hotel room when they arrived where he wrote "Stars and Their Friends." Once finished, he hurried to the private rooms of Turgut Bey and his daughters to join them for dinner. Besides the family of three, there was a friend of Kadife named Hande, along with Serdar Bey, the newspaper owner.

While enjoying the dinner served by their maid Zahide, everyone kept turning to the television set tuned into the live broadcast at...