Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent.
A new production center, maybe set in an undetermined future. What is being produced here? We shall find out by following the given traces. Two pairs of hands trying to untangle themselves. A human sheep virtually cut into pieces. A warm welcome to the authors and actors of their lives. Stories...
Most experiences are unsayable; they happen in a space that no word has ever entered. And still, there are words that connect people over time and shape their lives into having an inextricable link. The journey of three men, part dance into the unknown, part quest for meaning.
Like Pelléas and Mélisande, two young men meet up in the building's parking lot at night to confess their love and flee from the master of the house. How to reappropriate Maeterlinck's burning symbolism, with male bodies and in the half-light of today's Paris? By blurring the lines...
A young actor takes part in rehearsals for a short film, a director's adaptation of a short story by Rilke. The role she offers him resonates with his own life; the characters in the text awaken his own ghosts.