A woman alone in a messy room calls her lover who has just left her for someone else. Starting from this sadly banal story, Jean Cocteau wrote a one-act short tragedy - a strange "monologue of two voices", one speaking and one silent, in which the telephone plays a central role. "In the past," Cocteau wrote, "we saw each other. We could lose our minds, forget our promises, risk the impossible, persuade our loved ones by embracing them, hang on to them so they wouldn't leave. A look could change everything. But with this device, it's over, whatever is meant to end is over." The play was first presented in 1930 at the Comedie-Francaise by Bertrand Beauvais.
Language Greek