Beirut, 1977. A brief cautious break during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Over a course of a single day, a man and a woman attempt to meet one last time before the latter elopes to the U.S. She’s a Christian bourgeois from the eastern neighborhood of Achrafieh; he’s a Shī'a forced to leave his southern village. Both are lost souls failing to find a place for themselves in an alienating, self-destructive city. Corruption, poverty, garbage crises, sectarianism….This is Beirut as seen by the late, great master Borhane Alaouié: a wounded, collapsing metropolis no different from the Beirut of today. A Golden Bear nominee at Berlin in 1982, the restored version of Alaouié’s achingly personal document cements its reputation as one of the Arab masterpieces of the 1980s – a hidden gem that influenced Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas.