illicit love

However, peace is precarious: All it takes for tensions to flare and violence to erupt is one wrong move, one false allegiance — or one illicit love affair.

In this telling of the story, Lancelot and Guinevere are already deeply consumed by illicit love.

There is Princess, a serial dater and owner of a trendy art gallery; Zaza, a glamorous housewife having an illicit love affair; and Nandi, a high-powered lawyer who gets cold feet on the cusp of her wedding.

Though hardly lacking drama — an illicit love affair; a deadly illness; several murders — “Savage State” proceeds with a strange sort of calm, a stately deliberation that belies the urgency of the family’s flight.

A narrative seems to emerge of illicit love and rivalry, a tangled emotional soap opera.