Sofijas Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė's play "Tie metai" is a little-known work, considered by some researchers to be one of the few tragedies created by Lithuanian playwrights. This is a work about the illusions of the wartime intelligentsia and their collapse. Created in 1941, the play reflects on the experience of the first Soviet occupation. Revealing people's thinking and ways of acting, national self-awareness, S. Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė reflects on the crisis that befell the intelligentsia of that time. The author of the play shows that they were not ready for Soviet propaganda, so they tried to adapt outwardly and act secretly.

Director Juozas Miltinis was interested in the play "Those Years", he intended to start the theater season with it, but due to German censorship, the play was not destined to see the light of day. Jonas Vaitkus, the director who "rediscovered" the play, says that he believes in the necessity of such works as "Those Years" for today's theater. Although both the author herself and the characters created by her do not lack naivety, the play actualizes the value principle - in this way it is close to "Atžalyn" by Kazios Binkis, which the director staged at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater a few years ago. The director encourages us to pause and look back to the past in order to think about what kind of people lived at that time and why the events unfolded exactly as they did. "This is an exciting documentary chronicle, as well as a work of art about the tragic fate of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. It is a work that unites Mikalojs Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Vydūnas and Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė. It is a work that sheds light on the deep meanings of such words as Pupil, Teacher, Homeland, Family, Faith, Freedom, Conscience," says Jonas Vaitkus.