Iphigenia Among the Taurians

An Iphigenia, a Pylades, an Orestes, and some Anton Chekhov cross paths in an atemporal setting. They will carve out concentric circles in an everlasting clash with themselves and the others. All of them are descendants of the historical figures whose names they share. Their name is their heritage… An unbearable burden on their shoulders… How can they shake off all the heavy loads that history has placed on them? People change over the years, they become unrecognizable to their own selves, and they clash with anything that they instinctively recognize as a carrier of this amnesia…. To change everything… To become who you long to be… To declare your own identity… And then what? How can the sound of your breath fit inside the bustle of a war?

The story unfolds in a troubled period, somewhere around Crimea, near the Azov sea, in the suffering city of Mariupol, at a port called Taganrog (known as Taiganio by the Greeks who lived there), the birthplace of the renowned Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The war is raging, filling people’s souls with terror. It is the circle with the longest diameter in a system of concentric circles of conflicts.