Most Russian oligarchs tend to end up acquiescing to the Kremlin, or else are killed, jailed, or exiled into oblivion.
No mutation is tolerated - deviant crops are burnt, animals culled and humans sterilised and exiled into the Fringes, regions still contaminated by radiation.
Her book Exit into History is really an account of how people coped with being exiled into the future at the end of the Cold War.
One, for instance, occupies the body of Jonesy, one of the four pals, who is exiled into a secret annex of his own brain, which appears to be some kind of warehouse.
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Innocence" conjures a kind of supernatural Girl Scout camp deep in the forest, where prepubescent girls are ritualistically groomed into little ballerinas before being exiled into adolescence.
Back in the 1660s, after the restoration of Charles II following the Cromwellian republic, the experience of defeat led many puritans to see themselves as true believers who had been exiled into the wilderness as defenders of the everlasting gospel.
