"Hope Island" tells the story of a group of people who come to the UK from Turkey illegally and a young girl who comes for the purpose of educational opportunities. These young people, who come from different classes and cultures, are taking the journey of hope towards England to resume life elsewhere.

A film about the state of people who are forced to live their exile as an outer event, but also as an inner destiny. That condition involves several time levels: a lost past, a disturbed present and a future rimmed with hope. In the village of Zara wandering souls are searching for things lost: letters, childhood, parents… Zara lies at the heart of an eternal search for a place of consolation and respite a search, during which memories and dreams gradually merge into an imagined present. (swissfilms.ch)

Years later, Zeynep goes to the summer house where she spent her childhood in search of something she has lost, and meets a little girl on the beach. Zeynep snaps at the child’s every attempt to play with her, unaware that she is the only person who can help her find what she is looking for...

He was still breathing, desire was alive! One night a woman and a man tried to change their lives.