During two successive evenings some twelve residents from the Chicago block of flats on Antwerp’s left bank performed the first few pages of Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths. It tells the story of six impoverished characters living in cramped conditions in a cellar. In my production, the text was converted into Morse code and transmitted by light signals from the windows of the flats, resulting in a composition of flickering lights. A conversation about money, death, love and longing.