Six stories set in Northern Ireland. A young girl spends her days on a double decker bus, a couple struggle with IVF treatment, families argue and splinter, medical students dissect a human body. These stories of survival, trauma and conflict, provide a vivid and compassionate picture of people struggling whilst dealing with the long term legacy of The Troubles.. An expert blend of the personal and the political, moving and thought-provoking.
Rowan starts asking his parents things as a teenager. He reads about, he is upset by, he is angry, he says, there’s this branch of the British Army called the Military Reaction Force and they’ve gone round Belfast in plain clothes and unmarked cars targeting civilians. One member calls the unit a ‘legalised death squad’. One member says the unit’s role was ‘repression through fear, terror and violence’.
