Alma is a young girl with emotional problems and a special relationship with her grandfather Ramón, an old country man who stopped talking about 12 years ago after his son, Alma's father, sold a 2000-years-old olive tree in order to open a restaurant. Dominated by the sadness and the melancholia by the loss of his most beloved tree, Ramon spends his days visiting the place where the olive tree was planted, hoping the day the tree returns. Unable to bear the situation any longer, Alma looking for the olive tree, discovering that it was acquired by a Germany's energy... company located in Dusseldorf. Without money or resources, Alma convinces her uncle Alcachofa and her friend Rafa (who has a love interest for her) to go in a truck from Spain to Germany to recover the tree, starting a travel with unexpected consequences for everyone... [show more]
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Icíar Bollaín directs this Spanish drama following a family as they try to recover an ancient olive tree. To help her ailing grandfather Ramón (Manuel Cucala), who is unable to speak and refusing to eat, 20-year-old Alma (Anna Castillo) embarks on a quest to recover a beloved, 2,000-year-old millenary olive tree that the family previously sold against his will to open a restaurant. After she tracks the tree down to Düsseldorf, Alma enlists the help of her friends and the rest of the willing local community to succeed on a mission that takes her from her home in the east coast of Spain, through mainland Europe to Germany in a truck with only one plan - to return to her grandfather with his tree at any cost.
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