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When dementia strikes Susana, her ailing memory becomes fragments and shifting collages of pictures, home videos, and daily life encounters. Her illness brings back an accident from this Coptic family's history, raising unsolved questions about memory, time, and loss.
Susana is in her fifties, living a routine life between her home, work as a teacher, and service in the church. She suffers from memory disorders and dementia, which affect her ability to carry out simple daily tasks. Gradually, the burden of caring for Susana increases on her husband, Jamal. Her son Ramy returns with his wife Laila and son Bassem after years of absence spent in Canada. Susana's mind cannot comprehend the grandson's presence, while in her consciousness, the image of the present is mixed with fragments of pictures, home tapes, dreams, and hallucinations that relate to her memory of the incident where she lost her daughter.

Credits

Director
Maged Nader
Screenwriter
Maged Nader, Muhammad Mustapha
Producer
Tamer El Said

About the Director

Maged Nader
Maged Nader studied filmmaking at the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema. He made several short films, including ‘Fathi Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ and ‘Most of What Follows Is True’, both were presented in Forum Expanded at the Berlin International Film Festival. Maged also worked as a director of photography for several features, shorts, and documentaries, including ‘Poisonous Roses’ by Ahmed Fawzy
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