Three "unsung protagonists" of History, three people who experienced the final moments of the Ceaușescu regime, three lives that were tested and continue to be tested! Vlad, who was shot during the events following the dictator's overthrow, still lives with two bullets lodged in his body and has a story to tell. Lucian, with his enigmatic and guilty past, runs a publishing house and seeks testimonies from people who lived on the fringes of History and "fantasized about the revolution." Andria, who has just lost her mother, searches—as a political scientist and as a daughter—for answers. She dares to open the Secret Services file concerning her parents and confronts truths that will shake her every certainty.
The director and writer Konstantinos Markellos and actress Eleni Stergiou traveled with their collaborator Petros Makris to Bucharest and recorded testimonies of citizens who lived through the deprivations, fear, insecurity, and censorship of the Ceaușescu regime. Their shocking narratives became the ground for the birth of a theatrical work, which balances between historical documentation and fiction.
"This work was not written by me—or at least not only by me. It was written by real people who wanted (and it was as if they had been waiting for years for an opportunity to) open the tap of History and their personal stories. To speak without a filter about their physical and mental wounds, about inherited guilt and how it is transferred from one generation to the next, about Power, how it is imposed on us, and how much we tolerate it, about the lack of freedom established externally, but also about how we ourselves embrace it and make it one with our existence. About how critical we can be towards others, but also about how accommodating or compromising we can be towards our principles, ideas, and rights as humans and citizens when we have become accustomed to the monster, when we live with it or when it parasitizes within us," the author notes.