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The piece takes us to the center of a multigenerational network of relationships, in which the past is not closed off, but proliferates like an invisible, subterranean mycelium.

The historical injuries, the repressed traumas of our ancestors, are not buried at the bottom of history; they flow like poisonous sap through the same tree whose leaves we are today.

Spanning three generations – from the traumatized grandfather to the morally and physically decaying father, to the exploited granddaughter Halina – the drama shows how the wounds of the past colonize the present. Every act of blackmail, every lie told, every act of desperation in the here and now is, in truth, the delayed echo of pain that lies decades in the past.

The eponymous picture on the wall is not a rigid monument to memory, but a living, uncanny catalyst.

It proves that the wounds of history do not fade away. They mutate, they change their form, they determine our entire lives and guide our actions – especially when we believe we have long forgotten them.