In his debut feature, Usama Muhammad depicts a wedding that becomes a funeral as the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression (familial, political) are realized in violence. Both the bride and her deaf brother seek a way out. The boy runs off to Damascus where he is literally swallowed in the cloud of his illusions. "Since my first discovery of cinema, I have not stopped watching, observing my native village, a few miles from Lattakieh°(observing) this endless desire that people have to get away from their reality and to be different from what they really are. The stars of the day are those that one looks for at noon and which will never come out. And one knows it. The heroes of this film live on the illusion of their heroism. By fighting against one another, they end up by destroying themselves." (Usama Muhammad)