Bond Plays: 7: The Crime of the Twenty-First Century; Olly's Prison; Coffee: xlii

The Crime Of The Twenty-First Century: The past has been abolished and geography – even the sky – is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place – and is exposed to the deepest questions of human existence.

Olly’S Prison: an ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will not answer. Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years.

Coffee: A young man alone in a room. A stranger enters. Together they journey into a dark forest. . .When the men return to the daylight world, they are involved in a trivial incident. It is hardly more than a gesture – yet it is something that once happened and in its triviality captures the history of our century and confronts us with the deepest questions about ourselves.

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