I saw Marie-Rose. I expected her to be battered, perhaps disfigured, intimidated. No. She stands before me as beautiful as ever, just like when we were both sixteen and attended the gymnasium in Beirut together. She is now thirty-two and carries herself like a queen. I swear, she is beautiful, says Mounir. Beirut 1975: The Lebanese Christian Sitt Marie-Rose supports Palestinian refugees. Now she stands, beautiful and proud like a queen, before Mounir. In the conflict between Lebanese and Palestinians, she dared to break the friend-enemy scheme. As a traitor, she is arrested and is now to be judged by him, her old love from youth.