Three young men are admitted to Nartsissimo, an alternative neuropsychiatric hospital, where patients' phobias and disorders are treated. Although all three characters are seemingly willing to be in Nartsissimo, the hospital's violent and inhumane treatment methods change the boys' understanding of themselves and the society they live in. The play raises the question of whether a unique individual enriches society or whether society must treat their "disorders" in order to classify them into familiar boxes. Who gets to decide?

Jörgen Sinka (director) comment:

“One of the main themes of this production is a feminist view of masculinity. Is a man the one who is a brave, self-sacrificing, emotionally restrained alpha, or is the hallmark of masculinity the courage to stand against the currents of society and be in touch with oneself? Or is it society’s business to say what a man or a woman should be like? In my opinion, it is above all important to simply be a human being with all your good and bad sides and to give back to the world as much good as possible, both in deeds and words.

The play “Like Boys in the Rain” by Jim Ashilev, which has won several awards, is a contemporary drama about young men that examines how much a person can be sacrificed in order to integrate into society. Thinking about the history of the mental hospital, both violence and violent compartmentalization have been unacceptable health-damaging solutions there for decades. But what conclusions do we reach when society itself is one big mental hospital, where time has stood still and Does electroshock therapy seem like a humane treatment method against the background of what is happening?

The play gives the theater audience the opportunity to think about setting the boundaries of their “self”. Throughout the story, the audience is an unwitting witness to mental and physical violence directed at an individual. This shows how much we can do to ourselves and others without noticing it, in the course of ordinary life, by compartmentalizing.