Stuck in a traffic jam, Malek catches a fleeting glance of the beautiful Zeina the woman he loves. Tapping
text messages into his mobile phone he desperately tries to get through to her, but it’s clear, she no longer
wants to see him. She vanishes into the throng of midday Beirut traffic.

The young man has a syndrome which interrupts his breathing during sleep. Whenever he stops
moving, he dozes off adding to his disorientation. His mother Claudia has still not accepted his father’s
disappearance after 15 years. She stays at home should her husband return, Malek drives around the city
alone in his car. Each of them trying to live with a void of lost love.

But today may be the ‘‘perfect day’’ to lay their ghosts to rest. Malek is taking his hesitant mother to
declare her husband officially dead in the “absence of a body”. And that evening, in a trendy nightclub
where the young of Beirut go to dance and forget their troubles, Zeina looks ready to give Malek a second
shot at the love he so yearns for.

يوم من حياة مالك، وهو شاب يعاني من داء النوم القهري ويعيش في بيروت مع والدته كلوديا. 

بينما يتخبّط مالك مع أفكاره حول صديقته السّابقة زينة، تواجه والدته صراعها الخاص مع حقيقة اختفاء زوجها خلال الحرب الأهليّة اللبنانيًة قبل 15 عامًا. في هذا اليوم يتمكّن مالك أخيرًا من إقناع أمّه بمراجعة المحامي للإعلان رسميًّا عن وفاة والده المُختطف، ليجد نفسه ضائعًا في شوارع بيروت وحاناتها، بحثًا عن زينة على أمل أن تمنحه فرصة ثانية.

هل يكون هذا اليوم "اليوم المثاليّ" للهرب من أشباح الماضي ولقاء من فَقَد؟