An exiled brother and sister rehearse a code to use at an unspecified national border. On the other side-their mother, who must be told of the plan for her escape from the country they left behind.But fuelled by hidden motives, the story descends into a personal, dark journey of submerged histories, the lines the three drew between themselves and the blank spaces in their lives they never quite filled…Hard Places premiered at the Writers’ Bloc festival in 2004. The play received a staged reading at the Les Eurotopique festival in Lille, France and an international co-production will take place later this year.