On Christmas Eve the estranged Scholz family gathers again after years apart: a tyrannical, broken father, a long-suffering mother and two sons poisoned by old accusations. A young woman and her mother hope the holiday can bring reconciliation, but in three acts of naturalistic drama the family’s buried resentments come back to the surface.
An early play by the German Nobel laureate, a landmark of stage naturalism in the line of Ibsen. Download the free EPUB.