When The Shelves Hymn
20 mins
After Mariam’s husband mysteriously disappears, she reluctantly takes their teenage son Saeed from their home in Jeddah to mountainous AIUla, intending to sell their family-owned antique shop. Saeed is sullenly resentful, detesting the move; Mariam struggles to stay in charge while she searches for the title documents she needs to make a sale. What she finds instead are unpaid bills, a video diary in which her husband confessed to severe depression and some newspaper clippings about suicide. It is a discovery that will change her outdated view of men’s role as she and her son together embrace a new, independent life.
Hanaa Saleh Alfassi
Director
Moayad Abualkhair
Producer
Alwaleed Alsalhi
Producer
Maia Malas
Producer
Mana Almajd
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