The two founding members of a family theatre, through their desire to evoke the past, make the theatrical present the protagonist of their performance. The play traps the perception of theatre with their own personalities and their relationship with each other, and gives theatre writing a task that spans decades. A mysterious aesthetic quality, based on the identity of animal and human attention, the untouchability of space, and the fullness of human presence, play hide-and-seek in a 240 square metre basement. The inspiration for the Szentkirály Theatre Workshop’s production of  “The Letter” is a professional and personal story: film director Dezső Magyar, the former husband of Lili Monori, defected in the early 1970s, the day after the failure of the film “The Letter”. The filming lasted one day and was stopped centrally after a denunciation because it contained excerpts from a banned Russian short story.