When Georges travels to Lebanon for the first time in the 80s, he has big plans. In the middle of the civil war, of all places, "Antigone" is to be performed. The theater should overcome all fronts and create one hour of peace. That is the idea.
His mentor, who is seriously ill and can no longer realize this great vision himself, swears him to this utopia. It doesn't matter that the Frenchman has not yet seen anything of the world except for a visit to the Black Forest. Georges accepts, says goodbye to his family and gets on a plane to the other side of the Mediterranean in February 1982. But when the student teacher, activist, amateur director and young father lands in shattered Beirut, nothing is as expected. Spoiler: It's not such a good idea.
What can be understood of Lebanon from Europe? How to continue living in a world where some children get a second ice cream while others lose everything? What games does the not so distant war play with us?
Today the social situation in Lebanon is catastrophic. The explosion in the port of Beirut and Corona have further aggravated the economic, social and political crisis. How do Lebanese artists and a Belgian director living in Berlin meet during a pandemic? How much postcolonial thinking underlies our own actions within the project? And what do we do when, in the course of the development of the piece, the war approaches here, in Europe?
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