On Christmas Day in Montréal, Alex receives a box from Beirut intended for her mother Maia. Despite her grandmother’s wishes to keep the past sealed, Alex discovers personal notebooks, tapes, and photographs that Maia, aged 13 to 18, wrote and recorded for her best friend Lisa, who had left for Paris to escape the Lebanese civil war. Alex discovers an unknown and surprising facet of her mother. Drawn from Joana Hadjithomas’ real-life notebooks addressed to her best friend, the directors of “Memory Box” immerse us in their memories with exceptional visual creativity through analog photos, super 8 films, and audio cassettes. They recreate the atmosphere of Beirut during the war and awaken our nostalgia, taking us back to that adolescent period where freedom, love, and music prevail. But when your teenage years coincide with war, these memories become muddled, resurfacing to reveal buried wounds and long forgotten ghosts. Both filmmakers and artists, Hadjithomas and Joreige are used to questioning the making of images and representations as well as the construction of the imaginary. This story of the uprooting of three generations of women (grandmother, mother and daughter) in search of lost men convey many of the thematics and interrogations of their previous body of work.