This four-part series, Home, shows the lives of Beiruti housewives in their pre-modern houses and within the broader context of a changing city.

Make-Up (406.23) 8:00 mins
Mrs. Mneimneh's house overlooks the Bashoura Cemetery, one of the largest burial places in Beirut. A widow now living with her daughter and son, she always wished that her husband was buried there, "it would have been closer for us to visit him" she says. This episode is a reflection on age, life and death, the continuous cycle of life as a little boy playing on the stairwell, carves his future memories.

Abdel-Halim (406.24) 7:00 mins
Mrs. Jabr was obliged to leave her house after the filed roof fell down due to bombing. That was in 1976, at the very beginning of the war. Now she has sold it already, but most of the memories of her life reside there. She married there, and lived with her husband's two sisters, who even accompanied her in her honeymoon to Egypt. Her husband died when she was pregnant with her fifth daughter. She never had boys and when her first two daughters married, they had girls until the third one had a boy. That was the happiest moment of her life, she named her first grandson Abdul-Halim like his grandfather's name. Abdul-Halim, at two instances in the video, takes over his grandmother in voice over, to narrate silent super-8 shots of his Aunt's wedding in the big house.

The Fountain (406.25) 10:00 mins
A family of an Egyptian carpet worker lives in the ruins of an old mansion house. The stories told about the place, and the memories of childhood unfold as everybody gather around the fountain. The family fills the atmosphere with life as the mother describes the wedding of her son in the garden, the children site their memories, while the husband repairs a fountain in the middle of the garden. The three interviews are weaved together with a relative and neighbour singing:"walking in the streets of Beirut, looking for the lover, I entered houses and palaces, but couldn't find the lover..."

Motorcycle (406.26) 8:00 mins
The story of a noble rich person who never had children to inherit from him is told by his servant, currently living in his residence after his death. She witnessed the transformation of the neighbourhood into low class residential district, and the transformation of the house itself after taking away its expensive furniture and some decorative elements. The story stands as a metaphor of the changes that occurred in the area in the last decades.