SYNOPSIS:

The Turkish Embassy’s mansion in Washington D.C was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps. But this building is the summary of the history of American way of Life, enterpreneurship, civil rights and jazz. So many people don't know about it. Ahmet is the son of Turkey’s Ambasador Münir Ertegun, a jazz passionate with his brother Nasuhi. They turned the Embassy in late 1930’s and early 1940’s into a mecca of jazz musicians. The Ambassador's boys, Ahmet and Nesuhi were always inviting their favorite musicians over to hang and blow and thump. One day a black, Harry enters to the Embassy after he is chased by some whites and gradually he is led by Ahmet to enter the Embassy’s private life, and the friendship between them develops. Unusually for the children of an Ambassador, thanks to Harry, the brothers canvass door-to-door in black neighbourhoods, buying "race" (jazz and blues) records. Their effort is to track down authentic sounds. In the midst of the depression and coming world war, their fascination took them places where few white Americans dared or cared to tread. Ahmet begins to discover more of the situation of black people in America and experiences an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. There are “colored” signs in the auditoriums, white toilets, negro toilets signs. Blacks and whites couldn't sit together in most places so that the brothers put on concerts, Jazz was their weapon for social action, every drop, every note will develop this equality. It is a great mystery, it was the great phenomenon of the century, this huge new country with the wild west, gangsters, and the huge black population that created this new music. This will be the cement of the civil rights. Ahmet saw the future, every drop will rise the building. Ahmet discovers that Harry has a purely loving a white woman called Nancy, who lives in Georgetown, that’s why he had been chased by the whites that night to the Embassy. American democracy and America’s music share the same tenets and embody the same potential for change, hope and renewal. Ahmet wants to make this happen where blacks and whites working together behind the footlights and sitting together out front. The music by their efforts will be resulted new, eclectic, but rooted in archetypes, will be accepted by black and by whites. Ahmet acted as a broker at one important moment in the history that produces American popular culture.