Samuel and Judith are farmers, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the UK in a perhaps not-so-distant future. Each farm has to produce a set yield in order to make its contribution to feeding society. But Samuel and Judith's farm is lagging behind the plan. A stroke of fate has befallen the couple and since then nothing has been running smoothly: Samuel can barely work, Judith struggles to do what's happening. William Bloor, a "Foxfinder" commissioned by the government, bursts into the middle of this situation to investigate why they are lagging behind harvest expectations. And he quickly puts forward his theory: The farm is cursed. It is infected by foxes that use psychic powers to influence the harvest, lay signs and mentally manipulate the farmers ...
At first, Samuel and Judith try to deal with the guest rationally, but the situation becomes more threatening by the day.
Dawn King's highly political portrait of society uses the example of a single family to depict the dystopia of a totalitarian surveillance state that keeps the population in fear with ludicrous conspiracy myths. A disturbing
chamber play in which the threat gradually seeps into the private sphere to the point of opportunism and denunciation.
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