Palm Trees in the Snow (Palmeras en la nieve) is a 2015 Spanish romantic drama film, based on the book by the same name, written by Luz Gabás.
Shortly after her father's death, Clarence uncovers a letter with a hint about her family's past life in Fernando Pó (presently Bioko), an island off the coast of Cameroon, where they used to raise cocoa.
Determined to find out the mystery of family's past, Clarence travels to the island and manages to discover more than she ever thought that she would.
The film alternates between Clarence (Adriana Ugarte) in present-day and her uncle Killian (Celso Bugallo) back in 1954, struggling to get adapted to island life, while also finding himself falling for Bisila (Berta Vazquez), in the midst of Spanish Guinea fighting for their independence.
Currently available on Netflix in variety of languages both dubbed and subbed.
This film provides examples of:
- Babies Ever After: Between Julia and Manuel.
- Book Ends: The film begins and ends at the home in Huesca.
- Break the Cutie: When Bisila is gang raped one night walking to the hospital.
- Despair Event Horizon: Killian when he finds out that Bisila was raped by three men, one of which was his brother, shortly after promising that he would never leave her and let anything happen to her.
- Driven to Suicide: Presumably Bisila at the end of the movie once she learns of Killian's death.
- The Film of the Book: Of the book by Luz Gabás.
- Jerkass: Jacobo.
- Love Triangle: Between Julia, Jacobo and Manuel. Manuel wins in the end.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Killian after he whips a worker he falsely accused of placing a snake in his home.
- Not Good with Rejection: Jacobo when Julia pushes him away at his father's funeral. He takes off running and screaming into the forest.
- Title Drop: Said by Clarence around the middle of the film.
- Together in Death: Killian and Bisila.
- Tropical Island Adventure: The majority of the movie takes place on the tropical island of Fernado Pó.
- Wham Line: "That's my mother!"
- Who's Your Daddy?: It's never revealed whether Killian is actually the father of Bisila's second child.
