NR’s Souad Faress joins a new Almeida Theatre production based on Babak Anvari’s book Under the Shadow

They travel on the wind, just like that missile, and they only land once they find someone to possess.

When Shideh’s husband is conscripted to serve on the frontline, she is left alone with her young daughter as Tehran is bombed. The missile strikes bring terror and destruction and something more ancient and malevolent carried on the wind.