A one-act, ironic drama set in a small Flemish town that stages civic, clerical, medical, and domestic figures gathered around a saint-related event to examine communal responses to faith, reputation, and spectacle. Characters are rendered with marionette-like clarity, and the compressed single-setting action uses pointed dialogue and tableaux to reveal hypocrisy, fear, and the tensions between private feeling and public decorum. The work blends dry satire with a sombre provincial atmosphere to probe how ritual and social pretence shape collective behavior.