A Small Question of Terror

A young woman, her loyal boyfriend, and her mother start to hope for a better life after escaping harsh government control, but they still feel scared and worried as they carefully look for somewhere safe to hide from the authorities who want to catch them.

Thoroughly frightened by stories of the tortures other people have undergone at the hands of the Director, Alexis Meade, a young and attractive woman, engaged to be married, can think of nothing that she, as a good citizen, should tell him. Later, she recalls that her mother had said once, as a joke, "Someday our Protector will protect us to death." Treasonous words, and Alexis' fiancé, while being tortured, admits that Alexis said that her mother did say them. But Alexis vows never to confirm this, no matter what happens to her.

Freed only tentatively from the grip of totalitarian rule, a young woman, her devoted fiancé, and her mother begin to dream again, but their fears and anxieties linger as they cautiously search for a place to hide from the enforcers of the regime.