Liquid

An unnamed postdoc is still single, and frustrated not to have secured a full-time job or published her thesis as a book two years after receiving her PhD. So, she resolves to apply some of that career energy to her private life. Summer becomes a whirlwind of dates, with men and women, organised by spreadsheet. This is abruptly interrupted by unexpected and tragic news that takes her to Iran to reckon with family, her purpose in life and alternative ways to live. “A modern day Jane Austen,” said the Daily Mail.