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An adventure begins when Fatima discovers a treasure trove of VHS archives with her uncle Ahmed, exiled in Germany. Twenty years of his family's life in war-torn Lebanon are replayed on the screen. In these images, a common thread: the tireless efforts of a grandmother to convince her son Ahmed to come home. With this correspondence, Fatima discovers traces of a greater story. Like a shoot that would have lasted twenty years, the images captured the vanished memory of the villages of southern Lebanon, of the civil war and of the resilience of a Shiite family aspiring, in the midst of chaos, to find themselves.
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