The play deals with the sudden encounter of two women from different generations and backgrounds, and their tortuous romantic relationship. A world where bodies and minds are territories to be conquered. Petra embodies a constant dissatisfaction with the world, the determination to become, to be born into oneself. In this environment of drowning and suffocation, relational negotiations are woven through intimate transactions, as if the social universe in which these women live were imprinted on them. They thus become complex effigies of the ills of our time.

This seminal work by Fassbinder presents a brilliant portrait of a woman that offers a fabulous platform for exploring the complex imagery of human impulses driven by a force that defies logic, but instead leaves room for metaphor and poetry.

Beyond psychological drama, this material presented itself as a new avenue of stage writing for Félix-Antoine Boutin.