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Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billy's drinking gets worse.

En mitad de una tormenta de nieve, Ka, un periodista turco recién llegado de un largo exilio político en Alemania, se desplaza a la remota ciudad de Kars, al nordeste de Turquía. Lo que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: han asesinado al alcalde y todo apunta a que los islamistas van a ganar las inminentes elecciones, hay un terrible temor al terrorismo kurdo y una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar la cabeza cubierta a la escuela.