The mother was bereft of her firstborn, Hind—a child of extraordinary beauty. Then, when her second daughter, Hanadi, was afflicted with acromegaly, the resemblance that had once promised the mother a resurrection of her lost child vanished completely.
Acromegaly transformed Hanadi into a grotesque figure; the mirror’s game was shattered, and every trace of her former features was lost. The mother turned away from Hanadi—disowning and denying her existence. She banished her from her sight, exiling her to the attic above the kitchen.
Hanadi fled, only to lose herself somewhere between Beirut and Paris, while the mercurial winds of memory engulfed both places. Many boundaries blurred and dissolved, until oblivion became a blessing—a gift bestowed by the heavens upon the emptiness of this world...