This is an epic fairy-tale; an elegantly woven metaphor; a wonderful and thought-provoking story about several kinds of love. The play is about a man whose name is Hervé Joncour. He travels to Japan in search of silkworms. This is where he meets a woman who radically changes the course of his life – with just a single glance. His beloved wife is waiting at home, but the intangible and fragile fascination for the unfamiliar has touched him deeply. The year is 1861. Flaubert is writing Salammbô, the electric light is merely a hypothesis, and on the other side of the Atlantic, Abraham Lincoln has gotten himself mixed up in an endless war. Hervé Joncour leaves on the 6th of October – alone. By the city gates of Lavilledieus, he hugs his wife Hélène and says: “Don't be afraid, everything is going to be okay…”
