On Fatima’s wedding day in southern Lebanon, war breaks out. Her husband documents the front, and their photojournalist friend goes missing in Gaza. Through all three cameras, she questions love, absence and images in wartime.
October 2023. Fatima and Hasan marry in southern Lebanon on the very day war erupts in Gaza. On the way to the wedding party, Hasan tells Fatima that their close friend Nidal, a photojournalist in Gaza, has disappeared. Fatima cries, then wipes her tears and rejoins her family to dance.
The following morning, the war spreads to the Lebanese border. Hasan leaves to document the front in the southern villages. Fatima stays alone in their new apartment in Beirut, the camera she used at the wedding now her daily companion. She films the funerals held nearby for those killed in the South, demonstrations in the city, and searches every image coming out of Gaza for a trace of Nidal. Through her images, Hasan’s frontline documentation and Nidal’s still photographs from before, Fatima confronts a question she cannot resolve: what do images do in times of war, when massacres are documented daily and the world does not move?

