After several years, an anonymous migrant worker returns from America to his village in Slovakia. His place is taken. The emigrant´s effort to fit in the imagined gap back „here“ fuse with his memories of attempts to participate in the community „over there“. The rupture in the inability to be fully there where he is, and „bare life“ as the emigrant experiences it does not mean only life without any social rights and identity, reduced to material needs, but mainly life without soul, without any background of relationships. The Latin word Sclavi means both Slavs and slaves at the same time. Slavs still remain cheap labour force in this world. The scenic composition draws on old Ruthenian songs, letters from emigration and Karel Čapek´s novel Hordubal. It is carried in feverish beat and melodies of multi-voiced songs intermingle with raw physical action.