![]() ![]() With memories of happier times during the “Days of Plenty” of her childhood, Dalal falls in love for the first time against a background of surprise arrests, personal betrayals, and a crumbling social fabric that turns neighbors into informants. Upstairs, the fortune-teller Umm Mazin offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments below, Saad the hairdresser attends to a dwindling number of female customers and on the second floor, the nurse Ilham dreams of her long-lost French mother to escape the grim realities she sees in the children’s ward at the hospital. ![]() By turns affectionate, wry, and darkly comic, Absent paints a moving portrait of people struggling to get by in impossible circumstances. Dalal and her neighbors try to maintain normal lives, despite the crippling effect of bombings and international sanctions resulting from the first Gulf War. ![]() Absent tells the story of Dalal, a young Iraqi woman living with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. ![]()
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