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The screenplay for “Eephus” emerged from the collaboration with childhood friend Michael Basta, part of the independent film collective Omnes Films with Lund, and Nate Fisher, with whom Lund first became acquainted while attending screenings at the Harvard Film Archive.

“Carson knew the game play, Nate knows fun, weird, trivial parts of baseball and I had the off-the-field stuff,” says Basta via Zoom.

So much so that even when Rihab’s father, a retired Lebanese army sergeant, found a rental apartment in the Basta neighbourhood just for the four of them, the girls did not want to go.

So on the way home they stopped for rotisserie chicken and other treats from the shop, and at about 7.30pm, with the streets still alive with people, the family pulled up to a rundown building in Basta in central Beirut.

Unlike Saeed's parents' house, the new Basta apartment had running water and a generator for electricity.