1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.

Cast

Antero Alli

Rilke (Voice)

Sylvi Alli

Judith, The Artist

Lloyd Bricken

Rainer Maria Rilke

Felecia Faulkner

Rose, The Actress & Mother

Leah Kahn

Malik, The Dancer

Slobodan Dan Paich

Auguste Rodin

Lee Vogt

Roland, The Director