CHRISTMAS EVE

The hands of the clock are closing in on midnight on Christmas eve as two strangers sit locked in a battle of wills. A professor of philosophy has been arrested on her way to celebrate with her family and now sits in an interrogation room. The police have found materials on her laptop which suggest plans for a terrorist attack, she has a history of voicing subversive beliefs in the lecture room but is she a terrorist? Or is this a clear-cut case of state paranoia, of an unleashed police force overstepping all the limits of law and reason? Time is running out…