Mairead McKinley

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

As Belfast sinks deeper into the hands of rioters, an alienated young man receives devastating news. In his refusal to accept death, Robin begins to scour the city for his missing companion. Whilst friends, Grace and Eoin, struggle to comprehend his actions, tensions throughout the city bubble. All the while a mysterious visitor begins his own journey to watch the decay of the world around him, trumpet in hand...