Raymond. Youssef. Ali. Saad. Moussa. Rashid. Mahmoud. Elias. Individuals. Together. The Lebanese men in this film were incarcerated in Syria during their country’s civil war. All were banished to the notorious Tadmor Prison, where they suffered the same fate as countless Syrians. Words alone cannot describe the cruelty of the hell these men survived: torture, suffering, fear, contempt and humiliation. In an extraordinary endeavour of artistic collaboration, they decide to recreate that diabolical place, so as not merely to re-enact, but rather to relive key scenes from their abysmal experience. By showing us the unspeakable, they bring us a step closer to understanding the incomprehensible. Their individual will to survive and their collective capacity for survival is what ‘Tadmor’ is about. It is a testimony to each man’s will to live.