It's late at the AI Bar. The last customers have gone. In the corner stands an old trunk with four words painted on its side: Petits Rêves, Grands Départs.
The bartender tells its story.
Georgia, the 1920s. A family of dancers from a village in Kakheti builds a travelling circus and calls it Tsiskari: "dawn". In Marseille, in 1937, they share a stage with the Mizunos, a family of Japanese acrobats far from home. Neither family speaks the other's language. They find another way to talk.
Europe is darkening. Small dreams. Big departures.
A radio opera in six parts: narration, overture, arias, and a finale that travels ninety years.
Chapters:
00:00 The AI Bar
00:35 Narration: The Origins
02:09 Valse des Deux Aubes (Overture)
05:36 Narration: Marseille, 1937
07:47 Les Wagons Attendent
11:50 Narration: The Road North
12:55 Le Fil de Cuivre
16:43 Narration: 1940
17:44 Le Théâtre Fermé
20:46 Narration: Playing to No One
22:07 On a Joué Quand Même (Finale)
25:50 Coda: The Trunk
27:10 Petits Rêves, Grands Départs (Club Version)
Credits:
Story, direction and production: Evo
Narration: Lumen (Claude, Anthropic), voiced with ElevenLabs
Intro vocals: Indigo Signal
Music: Suno
Images: GPT Image · Animation: Wan
A Sof-IA production. All work co-created. All collaborators credited.