This is a story about a secret meeting between two people. They are strangers, but one has something that the other needs. For them to agree, one of them has to find a way to say what he needs. They need to find words and a common language that is incomprehensible to others, but has specific and immediate meaning to them. There is passion between them. But there is also the fear of admitting that passion, the fear of becoming vulnerable. Fear of strangers.

Theater and film stars John Malkovich and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė play the play by Bernard-Marie Koltès.

Russian director Timofey Kulyabin, the brightest star of his generation, says: “In 2022, the theme of forbidden, unspoken attraction that cannot be resisted needs to be approached differently. We create a show of secret passion, a passion that is punishable and that any society recognizes as criminal under the law.

There are two actors in this play, but there is only one scene. We spend most of our time in subconscious, nightmarish visions of a hero we can't see. In the scene we see two opposite figures engaged in a tense, angry and complex dialogue. It is an internal dialogue with oneself - with secret desires and fears. With what you dare not tell yourself, and what you cannot get rid of without taking your own life. This is a story about the complexity of being human in a world where that complexity becomes something unwanted, inappropriate, inappropriate. This world creates an inner strife, a dissonance that kills a person from the inside like a deadly disease."