In Little Wars Maroun Baghdadi recounts a story and evokes a milieu illustrating the waste and futility of fratricide in Beirut, as well as the means by which people survive on a daily basis-the little wars of the title for three members of a "lost generation." A thriller and a love story, Little Wars stars Soraya Khoury as a woman who is unable to accept what the director called "this trash heap of the Middle East today." Her movements in Beirut intersect with those of two compulsive characters, Nabil, a daredevil news photographer who makes his living off the war's atrocities; and Talil Bey, a Beirut playboy until his father's kidnapping forces him to conform to his blood-inherited responsibilities. A Christian leftist, director of several exceptional documentaries on the civil war, Baghdadi lived in exile in France during the eighties and, returning to Beirut in 1993, died in an accident.