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WHISTLEBLOWERS chased by governments they embarrass, criminals lurking in the depths of the dark web, smartphones that spy on us … sometimes the best fiction is based on truth.

Twenty-two-year-old Tommy Matisse (Dan Spielman) is a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London who dreams of writing an opera that will speak truth in the chaos of the contemporary world ...