John Paul Jalwan

In today's Beirut, different characters with unique stories navigate their lives without fully realizing their true desires, which contradict their status quo. As a result, their joy of living becomes a distant dream that feels increasingly unattainable.

Farid, who works abroad, locks himself on the last day of his stay in Beirut in his son Rawad's room, to find what he is hiding there. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic between them intensifies, and the past resurfaces.

Robert's dreams as a young musician were gone with the Lebanese civil war, which made him give up to reality and settle down in his father's barber shop in Hamra. The film portrays Robert in his daily routine in the shop, his encounters, memories and relation with music and the city. Through him, we discover and explore Hamra streets in before and after the civil war.