Not October

In a country trembling under its own shadow, a womanreturns to a house that may never have been hers, haunted by a husband whomayhavenever loved her —orexisted at all. As her memories fray and voices close in, she resolves to belong only to the earth, rooting herself like a tree in a land that demands loyalty, faith, and certainty. 

When a young carpenter — armed with his ideology and fear — arrives to fix her door, the boundary between sanity and survival splinters. What follows is a quiet war of belief, identity, and the dangerous violence of righteousness. Astory of fractured memory, fragile freedom, and the terrifying simplicity of hatred, "Not October" burrows into the loneliness we carry when the world no longer recognizes us — or itself.