Inspired by Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, the play explores the desire for an eternal existence. Chopin appears as a character and watches her novel on stage as she writes it, lives in 1899 as well as ceaselessly, and is almost interchangeable with her own heroine, Edna. She exists to live and die her own life, which had already happened in real time. She also witnesses Edna’s life, her own creation, as time rewinds and fast-forwards in fictional time. Throughout the play, the novel is both in the process of being written and already completed.