Badih Bou Chakra

Breakfast in Beirut, is the story of love found and love lost, told in past and present moments in time, flooded with moving heartbreaking memories of a group of people and their never ending love affair with a city, with Beirut, A film Filled with resistance, confrontations, dreams, secrets and personal confessions. Breakfast in Beirut combines illusion with reality, converging toward a parallel side of Beirut through the eyes of its inhabitants.

Regency is a fatherless fifteen year old. After her mother contracts the AIDS virus, Regency must learn to survive on her own. With her mother on her death bed, Regency is forced to prostitute herself to feed her addictions, attend to her mother’s needs, and pay the rent. My pink shirt is a tale of the loss of humanity, betrayal, and drug addiction. Will she overcome all of these obstacles and earn the chance to follow her true dreams? Or will her experiences with the darker parts of life destroy her humanity forever?