A naked young man washes up on a Guernsey beach. Unnervingly handsome and fluent in both German and English, he has no recollection of who he is, patriot or Nazi, innocent or madman. The show explores the heart of memory, identity and imagination, as well as the lies people tell themselves and each other to make the darkness light again.
What Is the Story of Gabriel?
On the English island of Guernsey during WWII, a handsome young man fluent in both German and English washes up naked on the shore. Unable to recall who he is or how he arrived in his current situation, the man is named “Gabriel” by his discoverers, a quartet of women isolated by the Nazi occupation of their seaside estate home. Hidden from the increasingly sharp eyes of the property’s Nazi inhabitants, Gabriel and his keepers try to decipher whether he is an Englishman, German or madman, while the lady of the house, Jeanne Becquet, tries to keep her head in an increasingly dangerous game of cat and mouse with one of the Nazi officers.