This play presents a conversation in a bar among several strange individuals who speak without listening to each other, unable to carry on a normal conversation. One eccentric character, claiming to be a diviner, predicts the death of one of the people present. There is a power failure. A shot is fired in the dark. An old woman has been killed. The police investigate.

« PITT: Just before, one of you used the word "definitely". (Ernest and Jules stare at each other.) I don't remember the context, but I was struck by that adverb. I'll explain. At this point I must make a small interpolation and tell you two things : first, I am a philosopher - which, by the way, is of no consequence; and second, I am a foreigner… / JULES, sourly: I don't see that you can do anything about either of them. »