A drama involving five young people who started their "adult" life away from their parents, in a big city. They came there to study, but it wasn't the studying and the prospect of achieving a hard-won professional stability that became important to them. Locked in the four walls of one of their buddies' run-down flat, they spend their lives doing drugs, constantly looking for more and more powerful excitement and sensations. The four of them - Ozone, Max, Paula and Angela - have already "got to know life". According to the motto proclaimed by one of them, "life is meant to be lived". "Minor", Max's brother, is still "naive". He visits his brother and in front of the audience he goes through an accelerated course of emotional and erotic initiation. Living in a state of drug-fuelled, artificially elevated excitement, inevitably leads to a tragedy.
Anna Burzyńska's play is an attempt to record the world of disturbed emotions, the disappearance of normal interpersonal relations, an escape from the normal "boring" world into the phantasmagoria of narcotic visions that make balancing on the edge between life and death seem more appealing. The atmosphere is dense and heavy, mainly thanks to the language used by the characters. Their youthful slang reveals the total simplicity of their thoughts, needs and sensations. As one of them says: "Get high, get lucky, crash somebody's party, get into a fight, turn the adren’ up! (...) That's life... To get drunk, to get high, to screw anything that walks! So that everything is just a mega extreme fuckin' joyride".
Only in the moments of sobering up, when the drugs wear off, do the young people have to face the fears and longings normally pushed into the subconscious.
Burzyńska's drama should be performed by very young actors. The tension resulting from successive drastic scenes can be emphasized by techno music, varying light intensity, and well-placed moments of silence. Well executed, it can be a more effective warning for the young audience than any educational program devoted to the dangers of drug addiction. It will allow parents and educators of at-risk young people to see the world of addicts through the eyes of stoned youth. The author has constructed a language pill for this purpose, which should serve as a vaccine.