Part of MOHAMED MALAS RETROSPECTIVE

The story is about a young widow and her two sons who are forced to move from their native Quneitra to Damascus, where her brutish father offers little emotional or financial support, forcing all of them to fend for themselves. Against the backdrop of successive military coups that punctuated the turbulent 50s in Syria, Adib, the eldest of the two boys, comes of age in the overwhelming urban magic of Damascus. Images of mosques, the faces of strangers and the greenery that embroiders Damascus swirl by as Adib witnesses each dizzying and violent day in the city.