Concrete Valley plot
Rashid is a doctor, Farah an actor, but that was in Syria, and their life here in Toronto is different. It's been five years already, time enough for their son Ammar to become a boy, time enough for routines but not for everything to settle down; the tranquility and the sunlight also speak of a standstill. Rashid takes English class, helps the neighbors with their medical ailments, tries to fix the water heater, while Farah works at a drugstore and has joined a local neighborhood initiative; they are together, but also apart. It's not a hard life, but it's not an easy one either.