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In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People’s homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, 40 young Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project, rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a safe place, deep underground.

In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People’s homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, 40 young Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project, rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a safe place, deep underground.

Qu'on se le dise, qu'on se l'enchante, par les temps qui courent en accéléré-à-reculons, s'adonner au merveilleux constitue un acte politique. Une escouade de résistants poétiques se sont mis à l'œuvre dans le plus grand secret. Réunis plus ou moins télépathiquement pour une mission de la plus haute importance amusante : s'émerveiller suffisamment fort pour que le bleu de la flamme de leurs souvenirs d'enfance puisse éclairer vos nuits.

In Siria, alle porte di Damasco, la città ribelle di Daraya è alle corde per l'assedio implacabile dell'esercito di Assad. Un inferno che dura da quattro lunghissimi anni, scanditi dai bombardamenti con i barili esplosivi, gli attacchi con il gas, la morsa della fame che stringe gli abitanti isolati. Per reagire alla violenza del regime, alla mortificazione emotiva, al senso di sconfitta e terrore che pervade la popolazione, quaranta giovani volontari decidono di dedicarsi a cercare e mettere al sicuro migliaia di libri finiti sotto le macerie delle case e delle scuole.

A journalist returns to her family home in Iran, witnessing enormous political, social, and personal change.