Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them. From the producers of the Academy Award-nominated Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe.

Truth is stranger than fiction. When journalist David Farrier came across a an online reference to a fringe sport in Los Angeles called “competitive endurance tickling” he thought he’d lit upon another amusingly weird topic for his lighthearted reports on New Zealand television. But it turned out to be no laughing matter.

A young, naive bride-to-be takes a job as a maid for a comparatively well-to-do couple in Tehran, unaware as she enters their apartment that she has been recruited as a domestic spy, keeping tabs on a boorish husband who may be having an affair. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s film, A Separation, won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award in 2012.