'Souad And Lamine’ is an intimate, cinematic ode to my parents, two luminous figures of Tunisian theatre, whose love burned as brightly as their art, until politics, prison and time forced them apart. My mother, Souad Mahassen, was a radiant actress and singer; my father, Lamine Nahdi, was a fearless actor who defied censorship under Bourguiba’s regime, paying the price with imprisonment. Their story mirrors Tunisia’s own, a dance of passion and repression, brilliance and sacrifice. Years later, I found my mother nearly lifeless beside her own mother’s body after a gas leak, a silent tragedy foreshadowing her later struggle with Alzheimer’s. Yet in her fading memory, one presence endures: Lamine. Against all odds, he returns, not as the fiery co-star of their youth, but as a keeper of their shared past. This film traces their journey through fragmented archives, half-remembered lines and the haunting spaces between performance and reality. Blending documentary and fiction, I reconstruct their legacy while confronting my own role as their son and storyteller. How do we preserve what memory erodes? Can love outlast silence? Their art was their rebellion; now, mine becomes an act of rescue. With incomplete scripts, contradictory recollections and the ghost-light of stages long dark, I piece together a mosaic of resistance, love and the unbearable cost of freedom, asking what remains when the curtain falls for the last time.