The interpretation of Enigma is in the subtitle: “niente significa mai una cosa sola” - “nothing ever has only one meaning”, every real element, every known fact turns out to be ‘other’ than that which it originally seemed to be.
We find ourselves in Berlin about twenty years after that fateful day, 9 November 1989, on which the Government of the German Democratic Republic proclaimed the ending of the ban, for its citizens, to freely pass from the other side of the ‘wall’ that until then had divided the city, the country and the whole world in two. And here, with the fall of the wall, lives, experiences, certainties, mourning and hopes, all shattered, came together and mingled.
Finding sense in the event, both personal and collective, that ties the two characters (Hilder, the landlord and Ingrid, the woman he helps), is the task for which the writer calls on the characters themselves, but also and above all it is a task for the audience, through the suspense of the theatrical game, in a crescendo worthy of a psychological thriller. What is at stake is not only the possibility/ability to unravel the many tiny elements of the two lives that intertwine, clash and encounter each other on the stage, but that of penetrating the greatest of enigmas: the enigma of history itself.