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1976 marks the beginning of Beirut's calvary. With a child's eyes, the filmmaker follows the deterioration of the city's walls . Every morning, between 6 and 10am, she roams around Beirut while the militia on both sides rest from their nights of fighting. A surreal film and an elegy to the city, with a poem…

Days after the 1976 Karantina massacre, perpetrated by right-wing Christian militias in a Palestinian slum near the port of Beirut, Jocelyne Saab meets a group of children scarred by the horrific visions of the fighting that took place before their eyes.

In July 1982, the Israeli army laid siege to Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab had seen her house burn down and 150 years go up in smoke. She then asked herself the question: when did it all begin? Every place becomes a story and every name a memory.