After their father’s death, siblings are clearing out the family home. In the attic, they stumble upon a dusty painting – a cityscape of early 20th-century Vienna. The artist's signature is barely legible, but the technique makes it clear that the painter was an amateur, and the piece has little to no artistic value. However, upon closer inspection of the signature, a shocking fact emerges: it was painted by a notorious figure in their youth, someone without whom the previous century in world history would have been entirely different. Suddenly, what was once a worthless streetscape by a brush-wielding nobody becomes a unique art object worth thousands. The previously harmonious family finds itself divided over the fate of the painting, and uncontrollable passions boil over spiralling into a dark comedy.
The performance presents a morally and ethically charged question – should those who suffered under fascist regimes be allowed to profit from the infamous legacy of the ideologues?
Author - Marius von Mayenburg
Director - Toms Treinis
Performance in Latvian with English surtitles.