Character Relationship Map: Tideline

Characters

• Wahab (played by Steve Laplante) — protagonist

  Lebanese Canadian protagonist who travels to Lebanon to bury his estranged father. His journey evolves into a personal quest for identity and closure as he navigates logistical complications and uncov...

• Sabbé (played by David Boutin) — supporting

  Supporting cast member. The provided plot summary does not specify his role, interactions, or narrative function within the story.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Wahab → Sabbé (Alliance Search Ally) — Sabbé supports Wahab's search for his father's coffin among bodies removed from graves.

  The plot says Sabbé documents pillaged cemeteries and tries to recover the dead, and that he helps Wahab and his companions continue their search for...

Story Analysis

Wahab's attempt to bury his father in Lebanon becomes a search for family understanding amid the lasting consequences of war.

Plot Progression

1. Loss and Family Testimony — Wahab learns of his father's death, identifies the body, and listens to recordings that disclose a complicated family history. At the funeral, relatives disagree about the father's choices and burial...
2. A Difficult Return — Wahab learns that his father made other burial arrangements and carries the coffin to Lebanon. His effort to bring it to the village of his father's birth is rejected because burial grounds remain con...
3. The Search Amid War's Legacy — After the coffin and ambulance are taken, Wahab searches for the body. Encounters with young people and a story of mistaken identity reveal how violence and grief continue to shape the community.
4. A Possible Place of Rest — Wahab and his companions locate the coffin, and Sabbé helps them continue. A landowner offers a tomb and suggests an inscription, but the account ends without confirming that the burial is completed.