Jocelyne Saab started out as a reporter for French television, but with the outbreak of the Lebanon War she returned to Beirut. Throughout the conflict, she made a series of documentaries, including the three in this session. His work has already been compared (for its portrayal of the ruins and its attention to childhood) to Roberto Rossellini's post-World War II films. In Beyrouth, jamais plus, the filmmaker follows the daily destruction of her city for six months, using the mornings to wander through the rubble. Beyrouth, ma ville reflects the shift in her work since Lettre de Beyrouth, which becomes more personal. In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four years earlier, the filmmaker saw her childhood home go up in flames, and so, in an immense process of reminiscence, she asks how it all began.