Al Fardan delivers a poetic retelling of the chronicles of a woman recalling living in the Trucial State of Dubai in the 50s, prior to the establishment of the United Arab Emirates. She recounts her experience of the transition into electricity and the beginnings of modern cooling systems, which were widely adopted and soon became ubiquitous in most Emirati households.

These advancements seem to usher in—or more conservatively speaking—seem to mirror a new political transitionary period just ahead of the union’s historic founding.