In This House tells the story of Ali Hashisho, a photojournalist who joined the Lebanese resistance in the country’s Popular Democratic Party and led a militia that occupied a Christian household in Ain el Mir for six years. The house was forcibly occupied by pro-Palestine militias following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Sidon, at a time when new battlefronts were being drawn. When the militias were dismantled, in 1992, Ali Hashisho wrote a letter and buried it inside an empty explosive shell in the garden of the house. The intended recipients were the owners of the house, in case they could return after the conflict.
