The story revolves around John, a Greek Cypriot boy and Pem, a Turkish Cypriot girl. John and Pem met at university in the 1970s and fell in love. But both youngsters' lives were overshadowed by their families' past history. John's great uncle, in his youth, was murdered by Turkish Cypriots for having a relationship with a Turkish Cypriot girl that he fell passionately in love with. Pem's father had a deep-seated hostility towards Greek Cypriots,...