"A former assistant to Peter Stein at Berlin's Schaubühne Ensemble in Berlin, director Jorge Silva Melo crafts a haunting tale about the power-and danger-of memory. German painter Bernd Hoffmann (played by Schaubühne regular Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to set up an exhibition of his paintings. The last time he visited that city it was in the throes of the April, 1974 Revolution; it was then that he met Hanna, another painter who served as his guide and companion in those tumultuous times. This is to be Bernd's first joint exhibition with Hanna, and he awaits her arrival in Lisbon eagerly-yet she does not come, nor do her paintings. His days are spent visiting churches and watching his friends rehearse a stage production of Uncle Vanya; conversations about the old days, and his increasing concern about Hanna, bring him back to a moment ten years earlier in which the connections between his art and his life were so much clearer-a moment in which 'people's power' was more than an empty slogan. One day Bernd sees Hanna on the street; he follows her but she seems to disappear; is she too part of a past that now exists only as nostalgia? Silva Melo creates a provocative counterpoint between the visceral, dynamic Schaubuehne theatrical style and a stylized, seemingly artificial world." -Richard Peña