Months after the incident on April 13th 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were gunned down by the Phalangist militia, the numbers are even more horrifying: 6,000 dead, 20,000 injured, daily kidnappings and a capital city half destroyed. This film, a unique documentation of the Lebanese Civil War, goes back to the origins of the conflict as seen by a society that went to war singing and with their heads held high.