A stage play co-writings by Hervé Bernhard Omnes and Philippe Villiers, basing on telephone dialogues between Greta Garbo and her friend the art dealer Sam Green.

It's a very private, funny, touching and unforeseen portrait. The stage play is inspired from the telephone dialogues between Greta Garbo and Sam Green. The actress knew that she was recorded, she had raised no disputation. It is at the request of Mr Sam Green, that its name was changed for present work.

The freedom with which the actress expresses herself, the natural and the simplicity of her speech, reveal a difficulty being so much more emotional than tone is light, imprinted of humour and of derision. Under daily appearing of a past never recalled directly, but permanent reason of rituals for initiated. Garbo imposes, bastes, insinuates herself and brings the woman slyly back in her pain.

Thirty-five years after the end of her movie career Greta Gustafson continues escaping from Greta Garbo. But totally incognito of course, if impossible.

The monstrous double which she wanted to avoid in the sacrifice of her art which follows her step by step. Her stolen youth gave life in this creature, which she never liked, in this fantasy which she neither wanted, nor understood, nor coped with. She has not the right to this normality which appears to her as the key of happiness.

The only point of anchoring: Sweden. The only sure value: the childhood. When she was small, she was one, without this tentacular double.

Walking during the hours, at a run, in all weathers, with the companion Sam Green who has never seen at least one of her films. Remain put into a monastery in his flat of New York with ban for Claire Koger, the servant, friend, intimate friend, sister and double for the last thirty years, for recalling a past epoch. But proscriptions jump, questions ring out and answers arrive, diverted, but always absolutely sincere.

Greta Gustafson, the Swedish, made space – always escaping – but not completely. Sam Green is a young trader of pictures. He is bright, respectful, funny, and completely under charm. He also represents the ultimate report of seduction, participation with a man for the last time. Claire Koger is Swiss German. She and Garbo have the same social origins. It is what Greta would have been able to be, if not existed Garbo. Together, they are two foreigners in New York. Two uprooted persons who invest the flat of the 52nd avenue as a raft.