Francesca Fatichenti

Gianni, an eccentric Italian-American, is forced to hide out in a luxurious villa on Lake Como, Italy. He hosts a card game in the villa with a group of suspicious personalities and his old apprentice, Tim. The game turns sour when it is interrupted by an Interpol raid. However, neither the officers nor Gianni and his friends are what they seem.

Liv Ferracchiati has chosen Chekhov’s *Platonov* to explore the mechanism that links intuition, writing and life within an artist. “It is worth viewing Platonov with a degree of leniency,” she explains, “because in his outbursts, his miseries, his fears and his inconsolable sorrows, we recognise our own.”