All about Retreat!
Retreat! is set in Knocknahay, a small village on a stoat-infested lake somewhere in Ireland, home to the Kathleen O'Mara Residential Centre for the Arts.
Here, Brigit, an unsuccessful writer and Celtic ‘Healer’ and Shannon, her Goop-inspired wannabe artist American distant cousin meet-up for an artistic collaboration. In the residency they meet the artists, Mary (an Irish poet),
Agnes(a French artist), Gunter (a German soundscape artist), Damien (an Irish radio celebrity turned writer) and the staff, Barney (the bumbling English director) Nora (the chef), Teresa (the kitchen maid) and the new kitchen temp. But where is the elusive, famous, Chinese dissident artist, Zhang Yong?
As the artist-residents and staff prepare for a group exhibition to inaugurate the new onsite Megacorp Exhibition Hall, an heiress, the groundskeeper, a celebrity Chinese dissident artist, and an army of stoats have other plans.