Je crois que dehors c'est le printemps Gaia Saitta / Théâtre National

“They’re playing with friends, I will take them to school tomorrow morning. You’ll go get and them. It was January 30, 2011. I never saw them again.”

Irina is of Italian origin, married and lives in Switzerland. One day, the father of her six-year-old twin daughters decides to take them away. A few days later, the father's lifeless body is found after his suicide, but the girls remained missing.

If Gaia Saitta and Giorgio Corsetti take up this story, which Italian journalist Concita de Gregorio has turned into a gripping book, it is not so much to unravel the details as to look over them, to capture the breath of resistance, the dazzling poetry of the one who remains.

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In a human approach, Gaia Saitta, who stands alone on stage, invites spectators to accompany her, to take a discreet role on stage, helping to give substance to the story, to Irina's emotions. Whether addressed and/or filmed live, they highlight the actress's discreet portrayal and likewise Irina's power. The power of paying attention to life. The strength of a right to happiness that she must reclaim. Because therein lies the humanity, the almost ‘shocking’ beauty of Irina: accepting to be touched again by love.