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It's his birthday, twenty-three years old, Bastien is feeling down. He went to change in the apartment where he lives with his grandmother, Martine. It seems she's hiding something; she's pacing around the small Parisian apartment. Bastien withdraws, racked by his suspicions about a letter addressed to him in an unstamped envelope. A letter that could reopen wounds and unleash torrents of the past.
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Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.

Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb.