The Olive Tree (2016)

Alma�s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain�s Castell�n for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma�s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons�Alma�s father and uncle�are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castell�n at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.