In a stylised greenhouse, the nameless protagonist tends to an undefined, life-size object.

The audience follows the action through a pane of glass, initially from a seemingly safe distance.

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Who is there?

What is the relationship between the carer and the cared for?

What emotions are revealed and do they clash?

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Haruka Tomatsu's performance combines spoken word, documentary and physical theatre with contemporary Butoh dance. Sound and video installations from changing perspectives draw the audience more and more into the action. Tomatsu's performance in the symbolic greenhouse allows us to physically experience feelings such as fear, anger, stress, love, sadness, longing and hope.

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Director Ren Saibara and her team have developed the stage action from four personal caregiving experiences. Their experimental production on the universal theme of care combines the seemingly incompatible: abstraction and intimacy, cool observation and warm sympathy, bitter reality and tender utopia.