Each is faced with the question of exile: to leave or to stay. Two of them have stayed in their own countries, in Kyiv and Sarajevo. They are wondering how to tell the story of the war: by film, on stage or through the media. Oksana has been an actress and fixer for international journalists since the start of the all-out war in Ukraine. Hala wants to tell the everyday story of war through film and fiction. Inès has set up a shelter for refugees in Sarajevo.

They are three young women facing the world, trying to talk to each other to bring about better times. These are stories of transmission: from mothers to daughters. And stories of commitment and encouragement.

They also bring to life a whole host of absent people who also had something to say to us: those who disappeared and those who couldn’t be there. They give voice to our times by putting new forms of resistance front and centre. They tell us in very concrete terms how bodies, lives and imaginations bear the imprint of this experience of war.

Who has ever seen their parents cry? That’s the question we always ask. Here, the question of transmission is even more acute. For each performance, one or two people linked to the stories, from different generations, are invited on stage as witnesses. A grandmother, a 10-year-old girl, a sister. It changes every time. So that the story is readjusted and new every evening.

On stage we create these collective ephemera, with the present and the absent that we summon, through live images and drawings. The live music, created and played by Emma Prat, helps to create new moments and accompanies the narrative.