A strong cast of actors takes the stage in Arne Lygre's newly written play about fragile family relationships and ethical issues.

An aging father calls his family to his house to tell them something. It's a fumbling and emotional meeting between him, his three daughters, two grandchildren and a son-in-law.

One daughter has a shaky relationship with her father. Not only did he have an affair and a secret child while his wife was dying at home; a couple of years after the daughter herself became a mother, the father threw her and her son out, and they haven't had contact for many years. And the news that the father now shares rips open old and new conflicts. The family is forced into a showdown with fate and must decide on each other and what actually matters.

A dream cast of actors meets Arne Lygre's new text in an associative, sensual and sculptural expression created by set and costume designer Nia Damerell. She and director Johannes Holmen Dahl are behind major successes such as Lygre's Time for Joy , Shakespeare's Hamlet and Bergman's The Strawberry Fields . This time they collaborate with video artist Pernille Sandberg, who emphasizes, highlights and raises the perspective of Lygre's wavering characters.

The previous play Lygre wrote for the National Theatre, In Our Place , won both the Ibsen Prize and the Hedda Prize, and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. And it is not without reason that he is one of the greatest playwrights of our time; we can all identify with and be deeply moved by his characters. These everyday people who, through encounters with each other, show us their darkest and meanest sides and expose how vulnerable we are, both alone and to each other.

There is something in every family, they say. And Arne Lygre's witty, poetic and poignant family drama touches across generations, backgrounds and life situations. It is about the small and big choices we make, which can have enormous consequences in our lives, and which bring us closer or push us further apart. And about what it takes to break out of our pattern.