Parents' Guide to Oh Belinda

In OH BELINDA, Dilara (Neslihan Atagul) is a successful, well-known stage actress. People recognize and admire her. She lives in a beautiful home with her handsome boyfriend, actor Serkan (Serkan Cayoglu), and enjoys friendships with her close circle of other theater types. She tries to get out of shooting a commercial for a popular shampoo brand, Belinda, in which she's set to play Handan, an ordinary housewife/bank teller who is shown in the commercial enjoying a relaxing shower with the fantastic shampoo being advertised. She's rude to the man who plays her husband, Necati (Necip Memili), and whines through the shoot until she shampoos her hair yet again and opens her eyes to find that the crew is gone, she has become Handan, and Necati is, in fact, her husband. No one from her previous life as Dilara recognizes her and she's forced to live with "her" husband and kids, cleaning the house, cooking dinner, and going to her job at the bank until she can figure out how to regain her old life. She auditions for a part with her old troupe. She discovers she's having an affair with her smarmy brother-in-law at the bank, and that she has embezzled money with him. She insists she isn't Handan until her husband has her sedated and institutionalized. An inmate tells her to play along if she wants to get out, so she uses her acting skills to gain freedom and plays the role of wife and mom until she can make an escape.