'We came out here to begin again. We came out here for the clear air
and a fresh start. No one said to us: beware of fresh starts. No one
said to us: god knows what will begin.'
Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on
motherhood. A terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from
their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of
speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story
about a mother's fight to survive.
Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city.
Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic
starting to infect the urban population. Surely their new remote
mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and
start their little family. But the mountains and their people hold a
different kind of danger. With their relationship under intolerable
pressure, violence erupts and Alice is faced with the unthinkable as she
fights to protect her unborn child.