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"Even the only survivor is no longer like that." With this hashtag, Syrians began their posts on social media, mourning the collapse of a number of houses in the village of Samra in the town of Kasab (belonging to Lattakia Governorate), in which the famous comedy series "Lost Village" was filmed.
The houses of the mountainous village of As-Samra in the countryside of Latakia were severely damaged following the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and parts of Syria at dawn last Monday.
Pioneers on social media circulated pictures that showed the extent of the damage to the homes of the village, which was known as "Umm Al-Tanafis Al-Fawqa", where two parts of the Syrian series "Daya'a Lost" were filmed, whose episodes were opened with the phrase "There is a lonely survivor. .
From a "lost estate" to a lost homeland
And the pioneers of the communication sites linked the incident of the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria at dawn last Monday and claimed the lives of thousands of victims, and the story of the series “Dayaa Dayaa”, in which chemical waste claimed the lives of all the residents of the village of Umm Al-Tanafis, at the end of its last episode.
Abdel Salam Al-Qaisi wrote on his Facebook page, "The only survivor in the series Daya'a Lost did not survive the earthquake. There, in the district of Kasab in the countryside of Latakia, the episodes of the series represented the most famous and beautiful. How I dreamed of visiting that beautiful town overlooking a sea that leads to Cyprus and Greece."
While Khaled Al-Nahhas recalled the memories of the residents of the village of Umm Al-Tanafis, he wrote: “Look, Asaad (the hero of the series).. He who survived the war died in the earthquake, people became homeless, and the eggs and chickens that Judy stole from your house became a great dream for the Syrians. I was right when I said in the last episode that there is no longer a lost estate.
After it became famous through the critical comedy series “Daya’a Lost”, the village of Al-Samra, which belongs to the town of Kassab on the Turkish-Syrian border, became a destination for Syrians and tourists who were fascinated by its simple rural architecture, its rocky slopes overlooking the sea, and its stone houses, which included, of course, the houses that The series was filmed in it.
The series occupies a distinguished position among all Syrians, as it directed, through its episodes, an implicit criticism of the manifestations of oppression, poverty, and neglect that large segments of society have suffered from for decades.
The mukhtar, the policeman, and the owner of the only shop, the “merchant,” represent the clumsy authority that controls the fate of the rest of the village’s residents without possessing the slightest elements of administration, which seems closer to a parody of the conditions of the Syrians in their relationship with the authority.
In the last episode, the two heroes of the series get involved in extracting paint cans that were buried in their village under the command of a smuggler who is supported by influential people in the state, and out of brotherhood they distribute them to the people of the village for free, so that it becomes clear in the end that these cans are nuclear waste that was agreed to be buried secretly in the village At the hands of the smuggler, the episodes of the series end with the death of all the villagers, and concludes with the phrase "Even the only survivor is no longer like that."
The series “Dayaa Dayaa” was shown in two parts between 2008 and 2010. It was written by the Syrian writer Mamdouh Hamada, directed by Al-Laith Hajjo, and represented by the late Nidal Sejri and actor Bassem Yakhour, along with other actors of the Syrian drama.