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A domestic drama follows a household in which a disabled child becomes the focus of competing needs, neglect, and longing, and where parental ambitions and unmet desires create emotional distance. A charismatic outsider and a mysterious wandering woman intrude on family life, setting in motion a calamity that forces the adults to confront guilt and responsibility. After the child's death, grief exposes hidden resentments, alters relationships, and prompts heated debate about duty, atonement, and the uses of personal suffering. Structured in three acts, the piece blends psychological realism with symbolic elements to probe moral accountability, love, and the cost of self-absorption.
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