The ethnic conflicts between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that sparked on December 23, 1963 and led to a war, was finally ended in 1974 by dividing the island and the capital, Nicosia, into two parts.
During the ten-year conflict approximately 2,000 people disappeared from both sides - a fraction of them has already been recovered from mass graves, however many families do not know anything about their missing relatives up to this day.Their present is still the painful vividness of the past.
After fifty years the two communities have joined forces and with the support of the UN the search is ongoing to find the missing people.Getting closure from the past could prevent another conflict and could even help the yearned unification through collectively coping with the trauma they suffered.
But the island is increasingly becoming built-up. Older generations are replaced by the younger ones, and with the passage of time clues might disappear and the possibility to find answers becomes more uncertain...