Näidendite andmebaas

Bob is a young man “owned” by Rita, a young independent woman who has grown up without a father. Bob doesn’t work, he doesn’t socialize, he doesn’t do anything a grown man is supposed to do. Bob is like a stray dog Rita has found on the street, except for the fact that he keeps the house clean and cooks dinner.

It is a harmonious cohabitation until Bob decides to reconcile Rita and her father (who had left the girl when she was a child), and Rita finds a boyfriend. When the boyfriend Henry comes over, Bob treats him in an unfriendly way. Rita, in turn, leaves home when her father, invited by Bob, comes to visit. She later explains to Bob that twenty years have passed and now it is too late for her father to make any reconciliations.

Henry breaks up with Rita and she is devastated. Rita and Bob start a new game: Bob loves Rita, and Rita loves Bob. But it doesn’t really work out. Bob invites Henry to come over. He tries to make Henry and Rita get back together, explaining that there is nothing between Rita and him, and promising to move out of the apartment. Henry decides to give the relationship with Rita another try.

Nelle, Bob’s wife, arrives at the apartment to pick him up. It turns out that Bob has a wife and two children whom he left a few years ago. He has now decided to go back home and start to live a normal life again. Nelle and Bob go home, leaving Rita and Henry behind. Rita talks to Bob in her dream. She says she doesn’t really like Henry. They talk about why fathers leave their families and what children expect from them. Rita wakes up and calls her father, agreeing to meet him.