NCPA head Bruce Guthrie directs Ira Dubey, Neil Bhoopalam, and Vivek Gomber in this dark, stylish production of Ariel Dorfman's 1990 play about a couple haunted by political torture and the stranger who disrupts their fragile peace. Schubert's music threads through a noir aesthetic of chiaroscuro lighting and tightly wound tension—culminating in a finale that leaves the audience sitting with grief alongside the characters on stage.