Lebanon in a Whirlwind

A few months after the incident of April 13 1975 during which Palestinian civilians were machinegunned by Phalangist militiamen the toll is most tragic six thousand dead twenty thousand wounded incessant kidnappings a semidestroyed capital This film traces the origins of the Lebanese conflict the perception of a society that goes to war while singing A unique document on the Lebanese civil war Beyond the religious war the painting of a social and political reality that has not changed much more than four decades later