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The title of Zbigniew Herbert's play refers to Plato's Myth of the Cave, where non-philosophers are likened to prisoners in a cave, able to look in only one direction and always deceived. From the true world of ideas, they receive vague shadows. And only a philosopher can get out of the cave by constantly asking himself questions and searching for answers. Only Socrates is lucky enough to escape from Herbert's philosophical «Cave» - and only into death.

Through this amazingly beautiful intertextual weave, skilfully stylised as an ancient drama and based on allusions to classical and Christian texts by Nietzsche, Eliot, and Sartre, our anxious "here and now" constantly shines through: rejection of otherness, unjust sentences, premonitions of war, the same speeches, monuments, prisons - one endless piggishness.