Death of a Virgin, and the Sin of Not Living

The teenagers Etienne and Adnan briefly watch a porn scene on their cell phones before getting serious: today, they and their buddies want to become real men. They have scraped together the last of their money and arranged to meet a sex worker. On the way there, the four young men brag about being macho and fantasise about their first time. Inner monologues, however, reveal how nervous and vulnerable they really are. Filmmaker George Peter Barbari sensitively exposes the desires and fears of his characters, who are growing up between modern and conservative ideas in Lebanon.