In his award-winning play, British author Sam Steiner outlines an undemocratic experimental set-up: in a near future, a law is introduced that limits a person’s communication to 140 words per day. Does reducing the number of words mean having less in common, or less to argue about? Will they lose themselves or begin to actually learn about one another? Through a love story, the writer explores what kind of personal and political consequences a limitation of the basic right to free speech could have.