This diary travels between Lebanon and Argentina, between father and mother, love and sex, freedom and danger, and life and death. The author is a filmmaker called Anthony El Chidiac who was born in Beirut 32 years ago and whose documentary Room for a Man, sombrely beautiful and with a powerful innocence, examines the subject of fear and the desire to be oneself in a private and public world where homosexuality is condemned. In this ‘Book of Hours’ written for Electra, Chidiac states: ‘I grew up in a shattered family, in a divided society, and a non-conforming body & mind.’ There are echoes in this diary of a world in crisis. There is a confession that becomes accusatory in tone, a dry precision that seeks an escape. The name for it is poetry.