Gabriella Kassinou

In 1517, anti-immigrant riots broke out in London. Thomas More, then a deputy Sheriff of the city, intervened. Decades later, William Shakespeare wrote a speech for the play 'Sir Thomas More', in which More defended asylum seekers - 'the strangers'.

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.