Two firefighters negotiate a series of dramatic heath fires in the Scottish Highlands. Their task veers between the frenzied and the tedious, sometimes tackling the flames with fire beaters, sometimes on an uneventful nightwatch staring at a distant blaze.
During the quiet moments the pair strike up conversations – at first tentative, later more probing – finding areas of common ground and issues of conflict.
This is part Groundhog Day, part Waiting For Godot, part Two Strangers Carry A Cake Across New York, incorporating striking movement and sound design to create a theatrical experience that is both intimate and epic as the characters explore notions of belonging, vulnerability, privilege, generational attitudes and what it is to matter in this world…
All in the face of an unpredictable and inarguable natural force that has no regard for either of them.
