Between drinking sessions and one-night-stands, washed-up tennis pro Tom (BAFTA nominee Sam Riley) clings to a job coaching holidaymakers at a hotel is Fuerteventura.
When an enigmatic English couple arrive, their presence sets off a chain of events that leads to a mysterious disappearance.
A quiet highlight of this year's Berlinale, Islands is a contemporary intelligent thriller with noirish undertones and stylistic echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, stunningly shot against the sun-drenched volcanic landscapes of the Canary islands.
