In Pereda’s Kafkaesque thriller of bureaucracy, a mine-worker Lázaro becomes increasingly mired by respiratory issues after he finds a corpse on the side of the road. Rather than build a central narrative around the murder mystery, however, Pereda moves off-centre to explore how systemic violence seeps into the inner lives of those on the periphery.

Drawing inspiration from Heiner Müller's text Medea-Material and unfolding through a series of recitations and discussions, Mathilde Girard's search for Medea quickly evolves into a remarkable space for excavation and self-discovery.