Isolating in NogentsurMarne Wajdi Mouawad embarks upon a spectacular inner voyage travelling from his own microcosm to the eye of the Big Bang. We follow him from Peter Handkes office to his fathers retirement home from the banks of the Saint Lawrence to Montral Greece Greenland and the Lebanon of his childhood. Through Kafka and Star Wars by way of French phonetics and the Temple of Apollo in Delphi he explores the razors edge of madness conjures a dream shared by all humanity and probes the bestiality of our everyday lives.Mouawads plays novels and essays speak to us all confronting our ghosts addressing the obscure and the impenetrable which dissipate as they are put into words. The musings in Speaking through the Night born out of solitude confront the mysteries of the universe with supple introspection.