Layal (Lubna Azabal) seems to be on the brink of a nervous breakdown. A college professor of Arabic who just quit smoking, she has no patience, her students’ incompetence infuriates her, she tries to relax while listening to meditation programs in her car, her mother in Beirut has fallen and become bedridden. As if this wasn’t enough, her teenage son gets expelled from school for hitting another boy with a hockey stick during a match. And thus “ Hot Water ,” Ramzi Bashour ’s sincere and offbeat