There are moments when the ground suddenly gives way beneath your feet. When the things that once seemed certain – work, routines, your role in the family and in society – can no longer hold you up.

The performance När Baba faller i poolen är kl. 23.47 (Eng. When Baba Falls into the Pool, It Is 11:47 p.m.) begins at precisely that moment.

The daughter tries to understand what happened to Baba, her father. The man who had worked so hard to find his place in a new country. Force majeure, they wrote.

Experience became a liability, age an obstacle.

Shame drives him to keep it a secret from his family.

Baba stepped into a world where he did not belong. He ended up at a pool party among society’s elite. To the guests, he was part of the party scenery, amusing content to share on Instagram. To Baba, it was a way to save his family.

Instead, it turned him into an image that cannot be erased.

In her attempt to understand, the daughter begins to remember. Her childhood. Her relationship with her father. Their roots. The small and significant moments that have shaped their life together.

När Baba faller i poolen är kl. 23.47 portrays a changing world of work and a society in which more and more people are falling through the cracks, where dignity is at risk of being lost when security disappears.