Coming home rarely stays simple, and for Fares it means walking straight into a rumor that his family's restaurant hides a decades-old murder.

What is Love Me Not about?

Fares returns to Lebanon from Syria to reopen his parents' restaurant in the mountain town of Nesr El Jabal, only to find the homecoming shadowed by talk that ties the powerful landlord Fawzi to their deaths years earlier. That suspicion does not stay contained to the past: Fares has fallen for Yasma, Fawzi's daughter, who has just returned herself after time away in Paris, and the accusation threatens to pull their relationship apart before it can properly begin. Love Me Not builds its mystery around a small town where old power and new love keep colliding, using the restaurant's reopening as the spark that forces buried grievances back into the open.

About the cast

Moatasem al-Nahar and Valerie Abou Chacra lead as Fares and Yasma, with Wissam Breidy, Joe Trad, Natasha Choufani, Nawal Kamel, Neaama Badawi, and Zeina Makki filling out a large ensemble around the feuding families. Rasha Sharbatgy directs, balancing the romance with the slower-burning question of what actually happened to Fares's parents.

Context & significance

Love Me Not is a Lebanese production built around a formula the region's television has used well: a small-town setting where family history, inherited land, and old grudges resurface the moment two young people fall for each other across factional lines. The mystery and the romance are designed to feed each other rather than compete, with each roughly forty-minute episode moving the accusation against Fawzi a step further while keeping Fares and Yasma's relationship in the foreground.

Watching Love Me Not on Ktime

K-Time streams Love Me Not with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the option to watch either way. A free K-Time account login is all that is needed to start, and the series plays inside a Farsi-language interface designed for Persian-speaking viewers.