When a small coastal town of fishermen learns about the secret visit of the President of the Republic to its local soap shop, they embark in an everlasting struggle at cleaning up and maintaining the perfect image of their town.
Mona
On a Sunday morning in Beirut, frustrated Mona and her miserable taxi-driver husband Abu Rami set out for a drive across Lebanon to visit their son Rami and his wife. After 40 years of marriage, the couple nag and squabble and Mona is plagued with doubts about his fidelity. When the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Abu Rami and Mona are stranded without help. While waiting, tensions rise and Mona confronts her husband with her suspicions. He angrily dismisses her thoughts as absurd, but is eventually overcome by guilt and confesses to leading a double life. Mona is devastated and abandons Abu Rami on the side of the road, but not before shattering his world with a secret of her own.
Oum Amer
It was the summer of 82, when a priest, about to be ordered, was exhausted by temptations and an arrogant girl felt passionately in love... A sifted memory and a personal history of a narrator who tells with nostalgia and poetry the meeting of his parents until their marriage...
Rose
En Beirut, cinco mujeres se cruzan regularmente en un instituto de belleza, microcosmos coloreado donde varias generaciones se encuentran, se hablan y se hacen confidencias. Layale es la maestra de un hombre casado. Espera aún que él deje a su mujer. Nisrine es musulmana y pronto va a casarse. Pero ya no es virgen y se siente preocupada por cómo reaccionará su novio. Rima vive atormentada debido a su atracción por las mujeres, en concreto, por esa cliente que va a menudo a peinarse. Jamale está obsesionada por su edad y por su físico. Rose ha sacrificado su vida para ocuparse de su hermana mayor. En el salón, los hombres, el sexo y la maternidad están en el centro de sus conversaciones íntimas y liberadas.
