The Night is Not For You : A beguilingly dark coming of rage story, based on a jinn from Arabic folklore

The Night is Not For You . . . It Has Always Belonged to HERShe's a cautionary tale told by mothers to their young children, 'Come back before it gets dark.'She's a warning to lecherous young men, 'Don't wander the streets late at night.' A man's body is found viciously murdered behind a neighbourhood's 24-hour corner store, sending shockwaves through the tightknit community in this small-town neighbourhood.All the victim's family and bystanders want is to make sense of this brutal crime and move on with their lives. But all seven-year-old Layla wants is a pet donkey.To her, a donkey is the epitome of freedom and being self-sufficient - to think for herself, go anywhere by herself and live an independent life.As the killings continue, Layla's world unravels. Rumours start to fly of supposed hoofprints and a woman with hair like black silk.As the ambiguous messages in lipstick and sweet smell of perfume cause the finger of blame to point towards the women, Layla herself grows into a woman.The kind of woman she has always dreamt of becoming - A woman with sharp instincts.A woman who cannot be tamed. This is a story of old world meets new, of modernity and isolation as a community turns on its women in an effort to protect their boys and men - but mostly importantly, this is the story of one woman's freedom.