Oxygen

10 conversations and commandments on the most pressing issues of today, from the September 11th attacks to the worldwide environmental crisis. Two young protagonists desperately sucking oxygen out of the world around them, a man and a woman—both named Sasha—who have found each other in order to lay out their generational musings on the meaning of life, homeland, impotence and conscience in ten compositions. The motivation for these conversations is a through-line in which Sasha the boy was listening to music when suddenly he heard “Thou shalt not kill” and, not finding any oxygen in his wife, decided to kill her with a shovel in order to build a snowman on her grave—“not having made unto him any graven image”—with Sasha the red-haired girl, who turned out to be the source of oxygen he needed all along.