Komuna Otwock is one of the oldest anarchical, socially sensitive theatre action communities in Poland. Their performances deal with recent problems. The theatrical language is minimalist and repetitive, adding a ritual-like character to their stage work.

Their latest performance is, on the one hand, inspired by the diary of a Polish Jew, Calel Perechodnik, who joined the Otwock ghetto police during World War II, hoping he could
save his family. Of course he could not save them, and furthermore he had to escort them to the train to Treblinka. In his diary, he was continuously fighting his conscience. He left his family,
but this was the only way to escape. However, he did not survive the war either.

The other source of the performance is the ideas of Zygmunt Bauman, Polish historian and philosopher. He analyzed the role and ’modernity’ of the machinery which served the extermination of the Jews. In this machinery, people had no good choice, so instead of considering universal
moral aspects, Bauman writes, they gave preference only to their own personal interests, and thus the exterminating mechanism could work effectively