Argentinian women went to a former territory to have their babies to give credence that the land belongs to them. This goes against a former treaty about who can lay claim on the land there, if there is any land below all the ice. I learned that so many treaties are made to be broken so maybe those children can eventually return to the land and raise their kids, point being the play is about two women with very different views on staying on in that neck of the woods. One of then happens to turn out to be a potential murderess according to the author of the play.

They interact with some kind of guardian each on their own who tries to convince them to stay but at the same time won’t give them concrete reasons for having stayed on. He is a bit of a strange character considering that the atmosphere and conditions are strange as is the monologued sort of discourse with the listener often going on o a topic of his own. Do people learn to disconnect from one another while living in a place of constant darkness for a good part of the year?It was a neat way to suggest that they do live under extremes where their thoughts turn to wanting to leave or stay and face an aborted child against the backdrop of permafrost.

There is a key turning point where both women confront each other on staying and there is a refenece to a flash of light which could be interpreted as an Aurora Boralis, a gun shot, or a ship’s flare. Either way once the play gets performed, ideally the director is going to have to work this out with the writer to see what were his intentions. A murder seems clear if the older woman seeks comapnionship and fulfilling her maternalism by raising a child at the cost of taking it from the other.

A neat episode is added when the stolen child grows up with similar qualms of staying at home with his mother as a North American kid could. Therein lies some sort of dark humor in how he rebels against her instincts and runs away but where could one do so in such a frozen environment? The humor element is sown into other dialogues such as between the guardian and the younger women when he talks about how her presence would benefit the region.