The word ‘Cyprus’ for most people evokes images of sunshine and the beach - a carefree vacation and relaxation. Maybe few think about the fact that in the soil of the island, many are resting in undiscovered mass graves as a consequence of an almost half-century-long Greek-Turkish conflict. The island was always a point where East and West collided and for this reason already from the early Middle Ages has been occupied by different empires for shorter or longer periods of time. All the while the inhabitants of the island - the Cypriots - have been living side by side peacefully, despite coming from different cultural and religious backgrounds. The last foreign oppression has come to an end with the decline of the British colonization, but the island’s independence, won in 1960, was only followed by a few years of peace. The ethnic conflicts between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that sparked on December 21, 1963 and led to a war, was finally ended in 1974, after a coup d'etat by the ruling junta in Greece at the time on the 15th of July 1974 and in retaliation to that, a military intervention by Turkey on 20 July 1974, as a result of which the island and the capital, Nicosia, was divided into two parts. Between the northern Turkish Cypriot and the southern Greek Cypriot areas a demilitarized zone has been established - also called the ‘Green Line’ - the inviolability of which is upheld to this day by UN Peacekeeping Forces. 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. Civil organizations from both ethnicities and the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) have been working on this mission together since 1981. 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…