A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut Genet visits the camp Suffering from throat cancer and having written nothing in years Genet begins to write on the threshold of his death about this disturbing new experience It leads to his last book entitled Un captif amoureux in which Genet reflects on the Palestinian revolution its defeat and the loss of ones homeland In this film a young French woman of Algerian origin who is reading the book returns to the landscapes of the Palestinian resistance and the refugee camps full of exiles in search of Genet
