Little birds is a fresh and subversive melodrama that springboards from the erotic vignettes of anais nin into the tangier interzone in 1955'. '.strtoupper('t')roubled new york heiress lucy savage juno temple is fresh off the transatlantic steamer anticipating love and marriage in exotic climes'. '.strtoupper('b')ut when her fiancée hugo hugh skinner does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into a surprising, diverse and degenerate world'. '.strtoupper('p')eriod drama about an ingénue abroad this is not'. '.strtoupper('l')ittle birds is very modern tale of a woman losing and then finding herself down a mesmerising rabbithole'. '.strtoupper('w')hat lucy discovers is a world in flux, a country quivering on the cusp of independence, populated by a larger than life set of characters including a provocative dominatrix, cherifa lamor yumna marwan who particularly captures lucy's imagination'. '.strtoupper('i')nspired by each other the two women embark on a witty, moving and provocative journey towards freedom and independence.