Aufen­thalt (Lay­over)

The setting is an apartment. Two people arrive, exhausted from their journey. In a discussion about their plans for the first evening, the two circle each other. A door is being slammed, a window closed, some clothes are being hung, a suitcase never really gets unpacked. While he wants to stay in and enjoy the temporal comfort of their “home”, she is in a constant state of restlessness. As the night breaks in, the room turns into a temporal and claustrophobic shelter in which mirrors become traps, language capitulates under the weight of bodies, long showers fail to clear heads, clothes won’t match or fit, and as the TV flickers, a couple of people listen to the sound of two black holes merging.