Sigridur Hagalín Björnsdóttir creates a new 21st-century dystopia, exposing our fear of going backward—back into the tight grip of state, social, and psychological violence and separation. It hasn’t disappeared; it hasn’t lost its power—only hidden behind the facades of prosperity. Any oppression always has a host of justifications, and at fateful moments society agrees to it.
Only a few of the feral and lost manage to break free from the embrace of lies. And only those who respond to suffering are capable of throwing into the void an almost hopeless cry for help: “We’re here. We’re alive. Hear us.”