A love story, born among university desks, between a professor and a former student, with the issues – common to many – related to the desire for a child that, however, does not come. Tracing the history of the relationship backwards, the skein that led to the emergence of the crisis unravels.
If the initial perception is one of apparent normalcy, we slowly witness the unraveling of the couple’s submerged world: more or less serious lies, confessions, final decisions, until the last, decisive and unexpected truth.
Who is Andrea really? A revolutionary professor and dreamer often at odds with the claustrophobic academic environment, or the moral leader of one of our country’s blackest pages? And how does Piera still trust him? Inspired by a real-life news story, the play shows how fiercely human thought can direct and manipulate while maintaining apparent integrity.