(105 minutes) Directed and written by Vatche Boulghourjian
Rabih is a blind young singer and violinist in a Lebanese folk group, who, when he applies for a passport to travel with them discovers his ID card is fake and the town hall has no record of his birth. But, no problem – he and his mother, who is properly registered, simply need to have blood tests. His mother tells him they lost his birth certificate in the civil war and his uncle, as he always does, will sort it. Rabih, impatient, organizes the blood tests. Only then does his mother tell him she had unofficially adopted him – during the war, after his army officer uncle had found him as a baby in an abandoned village. This sets Rabih off on a quest to uncover his past.
