The play is based on the play of the same name by the classic 20th century American playwright Tennessee Williams, which tells the story of one family. Its characters are incapable of realistic thinking and living. The mother is lost in memories of the past, the son longs for romantic adventures and the daughter is locked in her world of glass animals. The illusions created by the characters are more important to them than the reality in which they feel helpless and insecure. The main theme of Williams' plays, according to him, is the desire to show the negative impact that society has on the sensitive, maladjusted individual.