Je ne suis qu’un idiot

Feng, his wife and their two sons suffocate in a tiny room. Wedged between the single bed and the cabbages piled up for winter, they all dream of escaping from this unbreathable family cell. Until the arrival of a mysterious "exchange king"...
For her first stage production, Chinese-born actress Haini Wang invites us into a space where every centimeter is counted. Adapting a truculent novel by Feng Jicai, a leading figure in Chinese literature in the late 1970s, she reveals a housing crisis that has become universal, and takes a nuanced look at its consequences. Is he really just a fool who stays away from material goods and property? Or, on the contrary, does he attain a higher form of wisdom?