LIFE OF SAMIR

    Samir is a young man who likes to chill out with his friend Dama in
a cave close to the suburbs of Akam, a city ruled by corrupt oligarchs,
bankers, merchants and landlords. Samir is apprenticed to a pharmacist
and introduces Dama to kahwa and Himalayan khat. Dama gains insight and
starts to criticise the system. A peacful demonstration in the street
of banks leads to brutal repression and Samir and Dama become public
enemies. Dama hides in a cave and the police do not find him because
of a spider web.

    Dama criticises the exponential growth implied by interest ratea.
He cites vanished cities that over used their resources and bemoans
the patriarchal society that prefers sons to daughters.

   Samir and Dama take to the hills for a while, and then establish
a liberated zone. Samir introduces Dama to an oriental game whose
objective may be achieved by surrounding black stones. Strategic
insights enable Dama to win the war, despite appearing to lose many
of the battles.

   Dama drafts a political constitution, and Samir persuades Dama to
give Political Science courses to the masses. These courses are
not a success at first but eventually they take off. Following a few
military defeats political science graduates are put in the field
and would be warlords are shown their place.

   Heaven is described as a place where saved can watch the damned
through translucent screens (CNN or Al Jazeera ?) and this means the
film can cut into scenes of modern horrors such as Fukushima, Gaza,
West Bank Wall, Jaffna etc.

    In all of this Dama is a supremely reluctant hero, catapulted
into a higher profile than he wishes.

    The rest is history.