With humour and tenderness, Mihail Sebastian offers us through this play, which is part of the classic repertoire of Romanian dramaturgy, not only a touching meditation on love, but also a eulogy to the everyday beauty that we tend to ignore in the chaotic mechanism of everyday life.
A romantic comedy, inspired by a true story, a love story, full of immediate realities, accessed only after one of the characters decides to cut off all communication with the outside world - phone, newspaper, radio, bus. This character hides, in other words, the identity of the guesthouse where the tourists are staying, leading to an isolation that is difficult to accept at first. But this forced cloistering forces the participants to become aware of the moment, of the present, of the real presence of the other, creating relationships free of templates, of hiding places, of dual behaviours characteristic of a social life accustomed to dissimulation. But, above all, it leads in an almost tacit way to an introspection that would be impossible to achieve under "normal" social conditions, leading to a spectacular plunge into the depths of feeling, an unprecedented incursion into the depths of humanity, revealing to each actor the need to fully express their feelings, thus parading their soul in plain sight, naturally, like wearing a key chain.
Who am I? Who are you?... basic questions in the exercise of sincerity, essential in the rough approach of remaining, at least, close to the human spirit"
– Florin Coșuleț.