In 2014, on a wall in the city of Beirut the artist discovers the image of a face under layers of hundreds of torn posters. With a pencil sets to heal the rest of the face, restoring its missing traits. Armed with this image, the artist begins his journey through Beirut. Yet he faces a city striving by all possible means to erase those traces beyond recovery, to a point of no return. Like the relatives of those who disappeared, he finds himself caught between a desire to raise awareness and a fear that drawing attention to a specific case could lead to the destruction of evidence or promising leads.
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30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.
In 2014, on a wall in the city of Beirut the artist discovers the image of a face under layers of hundreds of torn posters. With a pencil sets to heal the rest of the face, restoring its missing traits. Armed with this image, the artist begins his journey through Beirut.
Yet he faces a city striving by all possible means to erase those traces beyond recovery, to a point of no return. Like the relatives of those who disappeared, he finds himself caught between a desire to raise awareness and a fear that drawing attention to a specific case could lead to the destruction of evidence or promising leads.