Gabriela: "I have a child. I am married. I have a job. An apartment. I - "
Tom: "At last we can be a real family."
Maja: "Now you are running away. Very good. Really really good. What a family! "
Doris: "That's just how I am. That's all. You mustn’t expect too much. "
In the middle of the night Gabriela finds a stranger in her bed. He turns out to be her brother Tom, whom she has not seen for thirty years. How did Tom get into the apartment? Why did her daughter Maja let him in? In the following, we watch how Tom forces his way into Gabriela's life in a sequence of scenes that intersect many layers of time. On the street, he meets Doris for the first time. The door to the apartment on the twenty-first floor is opened by the fifteen-year-old Maja, and Gabriela asks Doris to come into to the living room. Finally, Tom and Gabriela meet in the intimacy of the bedroom. But gradually the mosaic collapses.
At eighteen, Tom left home, leaving the parents he had never believed were his own. He fled from his fifteen-year-old sister, Gabriela, for whom he had fierce feelings. Decades later, the financial crisis ends his career as a banker and he takes up the search for his real parents. In the addict Doris, he claims to have found his mother. And now he is there to convince Gabriela that he is not her brother and there are no obstacles to their love.
Family - ties, expectations, trust and closeness, but also separations, deception, distrust and distance - Lorenz Langenegger 's new play illuminates this complex of topics and thereby holds many things in the balance.