Gaya de Medeiros engages in her militancy of affections to investigate in this new project forms of hope or the effort “to hope”. Based on the environment proposed in Pina Bausch’s emblematic show Café Müller (1978), which curiously was last danced in Lisbon, and those characters who have a very fragile relationship with life, the Brazilian choreographer and dancer weaves a multigenerational reflection on depression, ageing and the future. By revisiting Bausch’s classic, Gaya explores the expressive paradox of dance as a communication tool and a mysterious, opaque force. Thus, by traversing that morbid, distressing and sometimes convulsive universe, the performer invites the audience to dive into their pulsions of life and death, and to desacralise the act of being alive – less a duty than a choice.