A man wanders alone in the city. He is looking for the other, the one

who inhabits the night and could free him from his solitude. A dialogue

is established in the rain, fiery on the one hand, silent on the other,

between him and the stranger: a thirst for contact and moving humanity.

Michel Didym has taken this text—a descent into the abyss, a poetic

manifesto but also a cry for love which is lost in a cold, rainy night—

to allow Bernard-Marie Koltès’ magnificent language to be heard. The

rigour of the direction of actor Alain Françon and the engagement of