Clyde Gates

A fallen community struggles to survive on a remote island. A young woman seems to bear a strange disease that makes the vegetation and the animals perish. A lonely shepherd volunteers to escort her in the deserted lowlands to prevent her from contaminating the rest of the village.

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

An innumerable host of working-class angels, invisible to the human eye, labour tirelessly on earth to power our machines and to keep our homes warm and light. When one day some of them attempt to escape, a massive blackout follows and the world as we know it is thrown into chaos.