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Sad, old Abu Raed, airport janitor and white-bearded widower, lives alone in his dim apartment, making tea for his dead wife and telling her about his days. Raed finds a pilot’s hat in the trash, wears it up the dusty Jordanian steps of his dusty Jordanian slum, and a big, hopeful lie is born. The kids want Abu Raed to be a hero, Abu Raed wants to be somebody’s hero—really, somebody’s anything—so he tells them long stories about nonexistent adventures in London, Paris, Egypt, wherever.
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