THE DISSAPPEARING ACT

The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M.finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this rupture, she feels a flicker of liberation the possibility of starting over but memories of childhood, books, films and tarot cards pull her back, the last...[Read more]