Keir Charles, Hassani Shapi

A compelling story of ambition and deception played out between the US and a fictitious Middle Eastern state.

Set in 1989, an ambitious young American architect is mysteriously summoned to the troubled, fictitious country of Aqaat in the Middle East. Here the Minister of Culture commissions him to build a garden summerhouse to honour the memory of the Minister's father, and recreate memories from his own idyllic childhood.

The dream rapidly becomes a nightmare as months turn to years, and the architect's attempts to fulfil the brief are constantly rejected. In this veiled and dangerous world in which neither side is capable of understanding the other, the only outcome appears to be catastrophe...