Scene 7 - Always

While reading this, please play ‘Always’ in the music player.

Wednesday May 23rd, 6:20 am. Noura finally met her colleagues from the NGO at the port. As the preparation was complete, the boat weighed anchor. Everyone was feverish and a little anxious at the thought of embarking on this crossing. Noura was eager to see her family again and even though she did not know what to expect, she was certain that all the familiar people and places that she remembered were going to be very different.  Her country of origin was locked in the iron grip of its neighbour and had been suffering long enough.

7:30 pm. Noura was standing on the deck of the boat. She enjoyed the sunlight on the horizon and the wind from the open sea. She thought of David who had stayed in Montreal. They had been together now for 3 months and she knew that she truly loved this handsome student with a touch of a bohemian soul.

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Scene 8 - Trouble ahead

While reading this, please play ‘Trouble Ahead’ in the music player.

Thursday May 24th, 5:40 am. Early the next day before they dock, the crew are made aware that their port of destination was put under blockade a few hours ago. No one knows what is going to happen next as they are in territorial waters. After an hour, a navy patrol boat waving an enemy flag approaches. Soldiers proceed to board their ship and force them stop the engines. At this point, everything happens very fast. The military inspect he boat and the Captain is put under arrest. A brief scuffle ensues between the military and the crew, a shot is fired and someone falls. Screams. Threats. More shots are fired. There is chaos on the boat. Noura jumps up and tries to help a colleague who is being roughed up. That’s when a soldier hits her violently on the head with the butt of his gun. Everything turns black.

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Scene 9 - The Missing Half

While reading this, please play ‘The Missing Half’ in the music player.

Friday June 1^st, 5:10 pm. For the hundredth time, David was going over the news on the internet. Eight casualties and many wounded amongst the passengers.  A military blunder condemned by the international community. On the day of the tragedy, the boat was finally escorted to the harbor and the injured were transported to the city’s hospital. David had seen the details on the media and was worried sick about Noura’s fate.  Finally he received news through Noura’s friend, Amina, who was keeping in contact with Rami. Noura was alive, but she had been unconscious since the attack. Furthermore, the center where she was being treated was badly in need of medicine and medical supplies because of the embargo. David was devastated. On top of this, for the last week, he had had a strange and splitting headache, as if he had received a blow. Looking out the window of his apartment, he recalled that night at the rave, their first time together and those few months of pure enchantment. That’s when he took his decision.

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Scene 10 - Searching for Noura

While reading this, please play ‘Searching for Noura’ in the music player.

 

Wednesday July 4th, 9:35 am. David got out of the Jeep under the blazing sun and set foot on this ancient land. After a month of procedures and with the help of some contacts from the NGO where Noura worked, he obtained a visa and managed to get into the country. Of course, Canada, which was nurturing its relations with the enemy country, had failed to denounce the attack and had turned a deaf ear to the requests to repatriate Noura and the other injured Canadians. David had acted on an impulse and had made the trip all the way up here. He certainly did not think he was made of the stuff of heroes but he knew that he had to do this. The situation here was as bad as ever. It was a war zone. Rami was due to meet him upon his arrival at the checkpoint. He finally arrived and greeted David in tears. During the previous night, there had been another air raid and a lost missile had hit straight into the hospital where Noura was being treated. Almost all of the occupants had died, and Noura was still missing.

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Scene 11 - My Blue Sky - The Finale

While reading this, please play track 11. 'My Blue Sky - The Finale' in the music player.

Saturday July 14th, 11:10 am. On his way home to Montreal, David thought back on the last few days that he had spent in this foreign land. Was he lost in a waking nightmare? The search in the charred remains of the hospital.  The smell. Only a small number of the bodies could be identified.  The only item retrieved from the debris that belonged to Noura was her passport. After ten days she was still reported missing. He reluctantly resigned himself to leaving the country, leaving a sad Rami and his mother behind.

Tuesday July 3^rd, 23:15 pm. In the hospital, it was pandemonium. The doctors had decided to move the patients that could handle the transfer to a better equipped hospital. They had to travel by night about fifty kilometers and cross the border into a friendly country. The first ambulance stormed off just as the bomb hit the hospital and a fire started raging.  In the speeding vehicle, Noura opened her eye as she heard a loud bang. She saw one of the paramedics staring out the back window with a terrified look. She then lost consciousness again.

Saturday July 14th, 11:10 am. In a clean and cool hospital room, a nurse leaned over a young girl with long black hair. She asked her name and where she came from. The girl remembered nothing. It was a total blank. ‘’You know, you were lucky to come out alive. The center where you were treated was completely destroyed.’’  The weakened woman knew she could understand the nurse’s language, and she knew she could speak French as well. But no other memories came to her. She gave the nurse a blank stare.  ‘’I am sure you will get better soon and it will all come back to you,’’ said the nurse.  On the table she noticed the mp3 player, the only belonging that the amnesic woman had had with her. She turned it on and came close to the girl. She smiled at her and helped with the earphones. Noura smiled back and closed her eyes. The melody in her ears seemed vaguely familiar.

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