Wives of the Dead

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Sinopsis

'We walk in apocalypse, our men raptured while we are still here, left, alone. We are ashes on the wind; we are fragrance released from cut grass. We are the wives of the dead; the final widows. The last women: we linger, ephemeral, fleeting as shadows in the gaze of a rising sun. But we are still here; still living. We go on…and surely, surely we must go on.' A community of women hold together in a world ravaged and depleted by disease. Years of plague have swept away a world reliant on technology and infrastructure, and with it, all those the virus preyed upon: every man and boy is gone. Faced with a way of life familiar only to their ancestors, an ensemble of women and girls scrape a living from the land and their own ingenuity. Solidarity and co-operation run alongside adversity and disagreement. Each day is devoted to working out a way of life in an English village gone to seed, rust and decay. Even the harshest troubles of the diminishing world wind a way to their door. The voice of one woman testifies to a new world, while her memories recall the unfolding of the disaster. In the shadow of tragedy, both personal and universal, a world of women grapple with new ways of surviving: forging self-sufficiency, finding security. Loss and sorrow blended with a determination to go on. But how far can the future reach … unless somewhere there are still men?