Set amongst the high-rise estates of Glasgow, the home of many recently arrived asylum seekers as part of the government's dispersal programme, the drama begins as an apparently commonplace winter flu epidemic. But doctors are puzzled by the strange symptoms of this flu and cannot understand why it is only affecting a relatively small cross-section of the community. One asylum support unit worker believes environmental health hazards are to blame. But when one man dies, the post-mortem results reveal the shocking truth – he was killed by the deadly germ anthrax. Central to drama is a Kurdish refugee, Sherko and his 12-year-old daughter, Resa. Sherko remembers the full horror of being gassed in Halabja in Iraq, by Saddam Hussein, and now watches in terror as his daughter succumbs to the deadly infection.
- Tags
-