Beirut, Lebanon. The media portrayal of the war between Israel and Hezbollah is returning to the West an image of Beirut devastated, bombed, of buildings reduced to piles of rubble, of some neighbourhoods overcrowded with displaced people, and others, on the contrary, deserted. All this is real. And the many correspondents on the ground are reporting it. But it is not complete, and risks hiding the other – human – face of a city that is used to war, or has had to get used to it quickly: and finds instruments of resistance in its everyday life. In the apparently simple act of remaining, of continuing to live. Through the voices of women, youth, children, elderly; of volunteers, journalists, restaurateurs; passing from overcrowded markets to empty clubs, from schools turned into shelters to the hectic corridors of a hospital; from the nostalgia of Lebanon’s golden age, to the innocence of children in a Palestinian refugee camp, to the serene, yet conscious acceptance of the surrounding turmoil of a man smoking shisha on the beach, Alessio Cassaro and Valeria Rando have collected the human stories of fourteen people two months after the start of the latest escalation of violence that has hit Lebanon, involving the capital. Trying to fill an information gap, and return a more varied image of the plural, diverse faces that Beirut resembles, despite the war.