Director: Assad Fouladkar

Script: Assad Fouladkar

Cinematographer: Joseph Shemali

Sound: M. Shaneh-Saz

Editor: Assad Fouladkar

Music: Nidaa Abou Mrad

Cast: Bernadette Hodeib, Talal El-Jordi, Renée Dick, Umaya Lahoud, J. Abou-Dames, Randa Alam

Production: Lebanese American University, Assad Fouladkar

Year: 2001

35 mm, Colour, 98 min
OV Arabian With French Subtitles

Unreleased

Critc's Choice Montpellier 2001
Selected and rewarded in many worldwide Film Festivals

Ziad and Myriam are a young happy couple from the Lebanese bourgeoisie. There is only one thing wrong : they are still childless. After three years of marriage, Myriam sterility is confirmed. Her husband reassures her about his love. Under pressure from the families and in particular from her mother in law, the couple relationships deteriorate. Myriam is ready to try anything, including going to see a charlatan with her mother, to be granted the joys of motherhood and make her husband happy. Though Myriam’s husband swore his love and faithfulness to her, he gradually accepts his mother’s proposal and finally marries a younger woman who will give him descendants. Between the three of them life becomes unbearable and Myriam goes back to her mother’s...