Zain lives with his parents and takes care of at least seven younger siblings who make money in various schemes instead of going to school.
Zain's photo is taken for his ID card. Furious at his parents, Zain runs away and catches a bus, where he meets an elderly man dressed in a Rahil's forged migrant documents are due to expire soon and she doesn't have enough money to pay her forger Aspro for new documents. One day, while at Souk Al Ahad, where Aspro is based, Zain meets a young girl named Maysoun. I felt the need to talk about the problem, and I was thinking, if those children could talk, or could express themselves, what would they say? Rahil's documents expire and she is arrested by Lebanese authorities.
He uses forged Zain makes plans to escape with Sahar and begin a new life. At the end of the day, ... children are really paying a very high price for our conflicts, and our wars, and our systems, and our stupid decisions, and governments. The film received critical acclaim, with particular praise given to Labaki's direction, Al Rafeea's performance and the film's "documentary-like realism".The story then flashes back several months to before Zain was arrested.
Aspro's house is raided and the children and parents are reunited, including Yonas and Rahil. Capernaum Theatrical release poster Arabicکفرناحوم Directed byNadine Labaki Produced by Khaled Mouzanar Michel Merkt Screenplay by Nadine Labaki Jihad Hojaily Michelle Keserwany Story by Georges Khabbaz Nadine Labaki Michelle Keserwany Jihad Hojaily Khaled Mouzanar Starring Zain Al Rafeea Yordanos Shiferaw Boluwatife Bankole Kawthar Al Haddad Fadi Kamel Youssef Nour el Husseini Alaa Chouchnieh Cedra Izam Nadine Labaki Joseph Jimbazian Farah Hasno Boluwatife Treasure Bankole M… After she doesn't return to the apartment, Zain panics. The photographer cracks a joke—"It's your ID card, not your death certificate"—and Zain manages to smile.
However, his suspicions are proven correct as her parents marry off Sahar to Assad in exchange for two chickens. Aspro offers to forge the documents for free if she gives Yonas to him so that Yonas can be adopted.
Several days pass, and Zain begins looking after Yonas on his own, claiming that they are brothers, and begins selling tramadol again to earn money. Zain also alleges that Aspro is adopting children illegally and mistreating them. Rahil refuses, despite Aspro's claims that Yonas' undocumented status will mean he can never receive an education or be employed. Maysoun is a While in prison, Zain learns that Souad is pregnant and plans to name the child Sahar. What would they tell us, this society that ignores them?The film had a limited release in the United States and Canada on 14 December 2018. Disgusted by his mother's lack of remorse for her daughter's death, he contacts the media and says that he is tired of parents neglecting their children and plans to sue his parents for continuing to have children when they cannot take care of them. When the judge asks him what he wants from his parents, he says "I want them to stop having children".