At Troy the war has been going on for years. Cressida is a confident young woman raised to be free. She hopes to work on the important issues of the world: equal rights for women, emancipation, protecting the environment. Instead, she’s been a hostage in Troy for years, she’s bored to death and waiting for her traitorous father to finally redeem her and let her go. But the real misfortune is that she’s not alone with that for there’s another self-confident but not so young woman living in Troy, also bred for freedom, waiting for her ex-husband to set her free and let her go. Her name is Helen. Helen’s remorse is more devastating than any Greek or Trojan weapon, for she turns Cressida against herself. Helen is unhappy, and she spreads unhappiness around her like a squid spreading darkness in crystal-clear sea water. Wait, no. Because this water is blacker than black, the poison is simply a grey, amorphous blob in it.