Are all women potential Ophelias under the injunction to combine weakness and beauty to find their place in the world, to make themselves desirable, and thereby exist?

How do we get away from the seduction ideal of beautiful drowning women, smiling as men pursue them with intact desire despite this proximity to death?

The production questions these ambiguities and sails from maternal waters to loss of self, from dreamlike abandonment to revulsion, from the games of female bonding to uprooting and solitude.

Projected images seem to emerge from a body of water around which four women try to reconstruct the alleged suicide of Hamlet's tender fiancée. They get caught up in the deceptive seaweed of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings, only to emerge stronger and more united.