Lo is a sheltered 20-year-old who loves baking and manga. When she spots her college swim team’s tryout flyer sporting an octopus she knows it’s a sign that she must join. Her two problems are she’s socially awkward and she can’t swim.
A failing magazine writer and a nightclub hostess take a break from the world on a derelict plantation in rural Tennessee. As the ghosts of the past thicken the atmosphere, each must face the horrible price of peace.
Growing up in London between the wars, a young man with few prospects happily falls in with bad company. He seems to leads a charmed life, but who is doing the charming?
Inspired by real events. A young Iraqi woman goes against Saddam’s Baathist regime in 1979 when she steals a top secret microfilm and is forced to escape the country, but the regime will stop at nothing to find her.
