This play 'consists of four simple narratives interwoven in their telling to form a dark portrait of contemporary life: A series of letters to an old lover, a one-sided conversation with a therapist, phone calls to an answering machine, a statement to police - all forms of communication travelling in the one direction. All unanswered cries for help. Bovell's stories are about secrets, real and imagined, and how they can poison relationships. This play is the basis from which he wrote the screenplay for the celebrated film,
Lantana. (ABC Radio National)
