Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve,
they receive a mysterious package from Lebanon. They are notebooks, tapes, photographs and letters that Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, had sent from Beirut to her best friend who had left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.