Soeur Gabrielle
Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these envelopes and finds out who is the anonymous writer. This is how she establishes a connection with Joseph, a Lebanese worker hired to paint the offices. A strange relation develops between these two persons who come from very different worlds. But after a while, Joseph abruptly disappears and Marie, overwhelmed by the mission fallen on her, starts a journey into the past, through a small village in Lebanon, in the heart of a bloodthirsty culture were lies the key of all the enigmas.
Afaf
Un cortejo de mujeres vestidas de negro se dirigen al cementerio, bajo un sol abrasador, apretando contra su cuerpo fotos de sus esposos, padres o hijos. Todas comparten el mismo dolor, consecuencia de una guerra funesta e inútil. Al llegar a la entrada del cementerio, el cortejo se divide en dos grupos: uno musulmán y otro cristiano. En un país destrozado por la guerra, estas mujeres muestran la inquebrantable determinación de proteger a sus familias de toda clase de amenaza exterior. Con ingenio, inventando estratagemas esperpénticas, intentarán distraer la atención de los hombres para que olviden el rencor.
Bahiya
Aging couple Bahiya and Mahmoud have fallen into a reliable routine of bickering and making one another miserable until the morning that Mahmoud wakes and finds Bahiya gone.
Grandmother
After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks back. That is until her daughter, now 21, shows up in Montreal for a visit. This film explores what it means to be free for a woman.
