In a World War II German labor camp, five female prisoners on the eve of escape are facing a tough choice: to identify and give away the murderer of a guard officer to the camp directorate or to die on the gallows. The youngest woman is the main suspect as she had been in an illicit relationship with that officer. Only hours remain for the women to make their fateful decision.
Captured in "candid polaroid pictures", the characters of Ravenhill's new play are a former social rebel who served time for murder for political reasons, his ex–girlfriend who made the usual way for many "from hippie to yuppie", a nightclub stripper who is regularly beaten by her boyfriend, a gay man dying of AIDS and a sex slave he bought. This is a play about the vicissitudes of love, which, "without knowing shame", can arise from any "bullshit".
Até ontem a vida de Yevgeni Vetrov era diferente. Ele era um respeitado neurocirurgião com reputação imaculada, exceto por seu egocentrismo. Junto com seu sucesso ele tinha dinheiro e invejavelmente, ele tinha amor. Mas por outro lado ele também tinha inimigos. Na noite de evento de gala onde seria anunciado um acordo entre sua clínica e investidores estrangeiros, sua esposa é assassinada em seu apartamento. Não há testemunhas do assassinato e todas as evidências apontam em direção a Vetrov. Ventrov está atordoado, e apesar de ser inocente do assassinato de sua esposa, é condenado em um rápido julgamento. Subtamente ele se encontra a caminho de uma prisão na Sibéria acompanhado por três outros prisioneiros que iniciam uma tentativa de fuga.
The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
