Nadine Naous tells the story of her father and the school he founded in Beirut in this family portrait set in a country divided by war.
The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’s southern suburbs, once a mixed area but now predominantly Shia and a Hezbollah stronghold. Today, the 69-year-old founder is drowning in debt and must sell his school. He is devastated. His wife, however, sees selling the school as a relief. The filmmaker returns to her homeland to document this painful period in her family's lives and in the life of Lebanon.
