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His mother Claudia has still not accepted his father's disappearance after 15 years. She stays at home should her husband return, Malek drives around in the city alone in his car.

Each of them trying to live with the void of lost love. But today me be the „perfect day“ to lay their ghosts to rest. Malek is taking his hesitant mother to declare her husband officially dead in „the absence of a body“. At that evening, in a trendy nightclub where the young of Beirut go to dance and forget their troubles, Zeina looks ready to give Malek a second shot at the love he so yearns for.

Joan Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige