A Comedy of Tears

Albert is an elderly man a cynic a choleric and a racist He lives in a wheelchair in a spacious flat in Trieste surrounded with his solitude of obsessive memory fragments in which his unresolved relations with family members reside as he had distanced himself from them long time ago His only contacts with reality are Ida on one hand an educated middleaged lady who arrives from Istria to Alberts place twice a week to clean up cook for him and to bathe him and Alberts looking through the window on the other hand That day Alberts and Idas time together starts with Alberts nagging him being cynical and aggressive Ida puts up with his horrible communication with dignity and peace but that ignites Alberts malicious behaviour even more