Igor Bauersima

Three old friends. Author Nils, PR professional Casper and award-winning journalist Olga. One summer night, these three masters of the word get into a fight. They were inseparable during their time at university. They had agreed in writing to meet again ten years later. Soon it becomes clear that each of them had their own interpretation of their mutual promises while signing. The three of them try to get out of the looming heart-to-heart. Nils’ emotional state quickly spreads to his friends. He makes the situation inescapable. The three of them get caught in a struggle on the highest rhetorical level. They are forced to face the truth, and none is who he believes himself to be. At dawn, the conflict takes a crucial turn…

“It’s possible to achieve moral legitimation on the back of oppressed people, to stuff yourself with some remains of film glamour and fat cash, using the propaganda methods of the old slaughterers, without being held responsible by a court. And it’s possible to canonise the laws of the market even for these cases. It’s possible for us to loudly clap after being cheated for a long evening. But it’s unlikely we will gulp down the lowest common hamburger for millennia to come. Maybe the motor of history is that we’ve been really left behind by someone. At the very beginning… we proclaim ideas, even though they are lies, or we claim that our ideas are only wrong if seen next to the misled world, or we simply whack something. Or we decide to rely on the world, which is of course a reasonable, but difficult position. Or we simply do another play.” (Igor Bauersima)