A play, which is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina, who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a military dictatorship, tortured and raped her many years before. The title of the play is taken from a piece of music by Franz Schubert; Paulina loved the piece but grew to revile it when it was played repeatedly during her torture sessions.
Dorfman began writing the play in the mid-1980s when he was in exile from Chile. It was not until Chile’s return to democracy in 1990 that Dorfman returned to the play and “understood how the story had to be told”.