Here Comes the Rain

Like in many other places, the civil war in Lebanon left a sad balance of thousands of missing people. Ramez is one of them, but he´s one of the lucky ones: after spending two decades kidnapped in jail, one day he is liberated, free to go home with his wife and kids. But captivity and torture have left him wounds that are hard to heal, and the Ramez who comes back is very different form the one who left. Very sick and disconnected from reality, he can´t chase away the ghosts in his mind. His family also finds it hard to get used to this new reality. Until one day, during one of his many escapades from that home he feels strange, Ramez meets Zeina, whose husband also disappeared during the war. Memory, second chances, picking up conversations that were left unfinished, opportunities to recuperate what is lost, yesterday and today´s Beirut… These are the real themes in this fiction of reality; as painful as it is poetic, as hard as it is hopeful.

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