A short fiction film by Alaa Al Ali, a Palestinian writer and filmmaker born in Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Lebanon, part of the Suspended Time collection. Carrying a newly bought sofa home should be easy.
In Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon, it becomes a Sisyphean journey that reveals the complexity and absurdity of everyday life in the camp, and a search not for a summit but for a homeland.
