As well as trying to understand the wider upheavals intruding on an apparently idyllic farm, the two girls' world is thrown out of balance by the arrival of their volatile teenage cousin.
France chose to intervene in Mali and it may come to see its coat caught in the mangle of the region's wider upheavals.
Rolls-Royce is currently undergoing company-wide upheaval after a series of profit warnings over the past two years.
Turkey's "No Problems with Neighbors" foreign policy of 2004-2011, during which Turkey enjoyed increased prestige, economic growth, and regional clout, came under severe strain from the Arab Spring and -- in far greater measure -- by the region-wide upheaval of the Syria conflict.
And, rightly, he has stressed that the failure to develop the right transport policies could lead to wider societal upheaval.
While Kuwait's difficulties are distinct from the wider regional upheaval, the Arab Spring has energised the popular and political opposition and crossed hitherto-sacrosanct red lines of permissible dissent.
His breakthrough films established him as the leading light of the Taiwanese new wave, a master of intimate human dramas that mapped out the edges of wider social upheavals.
The industry has been pummeled by a lackluster market for initial-public stock offerings, where VCs make their biggest profits, and more recently by the wider financial-market upheaval.
The discoveries included not just obvious features like Meteor Crater in Arizona, but wide zones of upheaval.
The mode persisted, in the terminology of McGlade (1995), even as instabilities and tensions were playing out at generational, seasonal and daily timescales, exhibiting its ability to both absorb and utilise change at different scales, from climatic variability to periodic storms, and the waxing and waning of family groups to political upheavals and wider social change.
