The story of Petra von Kant, successful fashion designer, gives us a way to bear witness to the transfiguration of a normal emotional conflict into a much more complex self-questioning on the topic of loneliness – the impossibility of living alone and the impossibility of living with others. People depend on each other and torture each other with this lacerating dependence. Petra is disappointed by the failure of her previous relationships. She reduces her own existence to her living together with Marlene, a silent slave. She meets and falls in love with the young Karin. Marlene bears it. The love affair between Petra and Karin shows how fictitious and irrelevant the gay-straight or normal-different opposition is. This great love story dissolves with jealousy, betrayal, fatigue, and disgust. Now alone, Petra von Kant recognizes someone other than herself for the first time in the silent Marlene: “Tell me something of yourself”. There are no sets and no music. There are six characters in black immersed in darkness. They appear and disappear in precise fragments of light. The darkness voids the events and cancels out gestures and actions. What remains in the light is the extraordinary power of the actresses’ interpretations.