Set against the launch of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Mosquitoes is primarily a tale of two sisters and the tragedy that brings them together. Alice is an experimental physicist working in Geneva as part of the team searching for the elusive Higgs Boson. She has a teenage son, Luke, who loathes his life in Switzerland and struggles to socially interact with his peers. Meanwhile in England, there’s Alice’s sister Jenny who looks after their aging mother. Following years of IVF treatment, Jenny tragically lost her first child to measles after refusing the MMR vaccine, and she is now bound up in all the ensuing grief, angst, and confusion that entails. As the Large Hadron Collider is switched on, the media dwells on the possibility of an imminent apocalypse. With their personal worlds collapsing around them, Alice and Jenny pull in two seemingly opposite directions and see the world very differently.
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