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A hospital room. MICHAEL lies on a bed with an intravenous tree drip and oxygen tubes in his nose. He is barefoot.

OLGA walks in. She hugs and kisses MICHAEL, as best she can around his tubes.

OLGA. Papa! Oh, papa! I’m so relieved to see you!

MICHAEL (speaking carefully and slowly). Where am I?

OLGA. Memorial hospital…

MICHAEL. Why?

OLGA. You passed out. You fell, hit your head hard… We called the ambulance…How do you feel now, PAPA?

MICHAEL. You’ll not to believe me… I can see! I can see again!

OLGA. What do you see?

MICHAEL. Colors!

OLGA. Papa, you are in shock…

MICHAEL. I can see perfectly! No more white stick!

OLGA. The doctor told me that you have some problems with your mind and your heart

MICHAEL. Now I will be able to walk faster. I am normal! (pause) You don’t believe me?

OLGA. Papa, what you can see?

MICHAEL. I can read the Leningrad sign. It’s on the station platform. The trains are waiting… On the wall is the portrait of Brezhnev. My colleagues from the institute are all over there… They’re here to see me off… I’m going to Paris…

OLGA. To Paris?

MICHAEL. I’m presenting my paper on drawbridge construction…

OLGA. Papa, you’re, hallucinating!

MICHAEL. No! I am not… It’s real The French invited me to talk. I’ve told you how famous our bridges are… What is strange is that the Party Committee let me go… But I have to have a “Chaperone”… Dima… He is a Party Member

OLGA. Do you see me Papa?

MICHAEL. Well, how can I see you if you are standing in back me? (Suddenly,he raises up and extends his right hand) Hello… hello! Vasiley Ivanovich, I’m so pleased… Have you seen Dmitry my fellow traveler?

OLGA. Papa, the nurse told me, you shouldn’t sit up, even if you felt like it.. Just try to snooze a little…

MICHAEL (excitedly). I can’t sleep… I’m preparing for a business trip… (He rocks back to sit up. He looks around the room) Why isn’t she here? She said she’d come to say goodbye… We agreed…

OLGA. Who?

MICHAEL. Galya…

OLGA. Galya, who?

MICHAEL. Galya…You talked with her for a long time at our laboratory reception last spring…

OLGA. Oh, I remember her… She was so enthusiastic her work… Papa, the doctor said you haven’t slept since you arrived here… You must lay back and sleep…

MICHAEL. I’ll rest when I find Galya… It’s really important, I have to talk. With her…

OLGA. And then you will rest?

MICHAEL. When she comes I’ll rest… This is my final dissuasion…

OLGA. Do you promise me to rest then?

MICHAEL. Yes, I do…

OLGA. OK…

(Long Pause. OLGA starts gently talking as if she were Galya. She change her voice deeper and sexier)

Michail Mironovich! Hello, hello!It’s me… Galya. At last I found you! They changed your train track at the last minute. How are you?

MICHAEL (Jumps to sitting and shakes Olga’s hand). Gallochka! Finally! (Pause) I have something very important to say to you. Listen carefully…

OLGA. (Galya’s voice). Mikhail Mironovich I understand, but first you must lie back.

MIKHAEL. (Mikhael lies back down) Galochka! Finally! (Pause) Listen carefully… All right but listen, 1 am going to Paris… But… 1 have to tell you…

OLGA (Galya’s voice). Michael Mironovich, I understand, but first you must lie back…

MICHAEL (lies back down). I’m going to Paris… But I have to tell you, I’ll be back…

OLGA. I know, you will be back…

MICHAEL. But I have to tell you I won’t be coming back to you…

OLGA (in her own voice shocked). Papa! What are you saying?

MICHAEL. Olga! When did you come back? I was talking to Galya… Galochka! Galochka! Where are you? (jumping up) Where are my shoes? I have to find her… Please give me my shoes, (The oxygen tubes fall from Michael’s nose. Olga tries to hold Michael on the bed)

OLGA. Papa, please, lie back… you don’t need shoes you’re in the hospital… Your oxygen has fallen out…

MICHAEL (resisting). I won’t lie down until I explain more to Galochka! Get out of my way! Call her back! I have more to explain… Where is she?

OLGA (switching to Galya’s voice with an edge). Michael Mironovich…

MICHAEL. Galochka, why are you so formal? You call me Misha…

OLGA. Here are many strangers, your fellow workers…

MICHAEL. You’re right… No one need know… Let me have your hand…

(Olga extends her hand)