In a Polish village near the Czech border men keep dying in violent ways, their bodies are discovered surrounded by animal tracks in the snow. Janina Duszejko, an older woman who plots astrological charts and translates William Blake, has a theory: she thinks the men are being killed because they're hunters - and it's the animals who are doing it. They're taking their revenge.
As the men continue to die in unpleasant ways we learn that Janina has recently lost her two beloved dogs - she refers to them as her 'daughters' and is bereft at their disappearance. This is the setup for Olga Tokarczuk's 2009 novel 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead', which has been adapted for the stage in an extraordinary production at The Lowry theatre by internationally renowned theatre company Theatre de Complicité.
At its heart this play is a murder mystery - but this is a 'whodunnit' unlike any you've seen before.
