Whispers from Zarzour

the desolate hills of southern Lebanon lies the forgotten village of Zarzour—a place absent from maps, ignored by GPS, and erased from the memories of neighboring towns. When Layla, a Lebanese-American folklorist, returns to her ancestral homeland to investigate her grandmother’s cryptic stories about Zarzour, she uncovers far more than old legends.

The village is not abandoned—at least, not in the way she expects. Time moves strangely there, shadows whisper in dead dialects, and the villagers follow an ancient rite that revolves around "The Bleeding Tree," a relic believed to trap a god older than death. The deeper Layla digs into Zarzour’s secrets, the more the village begins to shift around her—its people, its boundaries, even her memor