The Prophet's Song

One evening, microbiologist Ailish Stack, the mother of four children, answers a knock at the door. On the doorstep are two operatives from the newly formed State National Security Service, who would like to speak with Ailish's husband, a teachers' union activist. After the protest demonstration, her husband disappears — and Ailish finds herself trapped in the logic of a nightmare: social institutions are crumbling before her eyes, the government has turned a quiet suburb into a combat zone, and in order to save her family, Ailish is forced to take the impossible...