A man and a woman meet at a café table and reminisce about the past.
This is the starting point of a complex story of love and friendship that reaches us through the voices of Jerry, Emma and Robert, told by Harold Pinter through a fractured, reverse timeline. This gesture may be a clear way of addressing the complexity of the passage of time, how we construct memories, and how our choices in communication are neither linear nor objective. Perhaps it is precisely the space between action and word — Pinter’s Pause — that carries all the tension and all the truth of a dialogue that may, at first glance, seem inconsequential.
There are moments when betrayal is implied merely in a line of dialogue, in a pause or an exchange of glances, in an evocation of the past, in an unfulfilled promise. A disturbing story about the fragility of love and human relationships.