The little cat.
Tanya returns to the house to pick him up.
Fouad, his father, shouts to him that he must leave, that the Hezbollah men are coming.
Smoke rises towards the sky, the population shouts.
Tel-Aviv-Beirut
, which probably did not benefit from a blockbuster budget, manages without difficulty to transcribe the atmosphere of a region at war: the South-Lebanon of 1982. After hours of waiting, IDF soldiers finally open the border to Israel.
Tanya and her father are safe and sound.
And desperate.
They leave behind their country and the memory of Nour, the mother, killed by a bomb while she was singing an air of Najat Al Shaghira.
Exiled in Israel like thousands of others, Fouad seeks in vain the support of a Hebrew officer, Yoshi, to whom he had, as a member of the Lebanese Christian forces, lent a hand during the occupation of the country by Tsahal.
And whose friend he had become.
This missed promise is the pivot of the film.
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