“Each person is a whole city full of people. There are a thousand different versions of ourselves living within us, and they cannot all be equally important. We decide which ones define us. You have the medicine. I have God. One thing – one single thing – is the highest thing for us.”

Violence as a political tool is back in popularity. “Whoever prevents me from defending myself kills me as well as if he attacked me,” says Robespierre. “Where self-defense ends, murder begins,” says Danton. What should happen next with the French Revolution almost four years after the storming of the Bastille? Should it be transformed into a republic that gives people all the freedom to live their lives, be happy or starve? Or must the revolution continue as a dictatorship until social equality is finally achieved, even if the reign of terror still claims many lives by then?