Jean Khalil Chamoun's first dramatic feature revisits the decade and a half of civil war in Lebanon that ended in 1990. Chamoun brings us into the complexities of Lebanon's civil war, through the lives of Rami, a twelve-year-old boy on the cusp of adulthood, and his family. In hopes of escaping the civil war between Christian and Muslims escalating in the countryside, Rami's family moves to Beirut. However, the war follows them to the city, and there Rami and his family struggle with unemployment, death and the disappearance of loved ones.

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an article on the film, and a viewer's guide about the film for their audiences (rtf doc)

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