But beneath every violation of civil liberty, there are real human beings; behind every act of resistance, there is an individual willing to risk everything. And these people aren't heroic or remarkable - they're just like us.??

Through a series of vignettes involving the lives of bureaucrats, soldiers, artists and tour guides,?No Particular Order?charts the fate of a society in turmoil to ask at every step of the way: is it empathy, or power, that endures??