In the Land That Is Like You

In the Land That Is Like You

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2009•52 min•FR
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In the Land That Is Like You is a progress on the tracks of my lost past, with the contact of my mother, my grandmother and the man who I love, in a country which escapes from me and retains me, Lebanon.
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