Ana and Arthur have a simple plan: Escape Ireland for the forests of Southern Poland to wait out a global pandemic. But, deep in the Suedete forests, their own ghosts await them – drawing them into a dilemma that could cost them everything.

Crossing continents, cultures, and time zones, Life During Wartime tells the story of Mother and Daughter at war with each other, of a country deep in a culture war, of a writer at war with himself after a bereavement, and the struggles of a couple to carry on as the political climate around them grows ever darker.