Cyprus. 1974. A young Greek man, Kostas, and a young Turkish woman, Defne, secretly meet in a romantic tavern under the shade of an old fig tree growing right inside the hall. The tree becomes a witness to tragic events that split the once peaceful, beautiful island in two, wrecking the lives of its inhabitants and, it seemed, forever separating Kostas and Defne…
London. The end of the 2010s. In the garden of a house where Kostas lives with his sixteen-year-old daughter Ada, a young fig tree is growing. For Ada, it’s the only link to the island she’s never been to and to the dramatic story of her family—one that, like the tree, has roots in the distant past… “The Island of Missing Trees” is a touching, romantic love story against the backdrop of civil strife and the horrors of civil war.