Howard Barker rewrites the terrible confrontation between two heros: Judith, who wants to save the Jews of Bethulie and Holopherne, the terrible general from Nineveh, who has come to exterminate these same inhabitants, in a night where talking will change the predictable outcome of history. 

Like a trip into the heart of the American myth, those of the Kennedy years, the 1960s carried the hope of an upheaval by young people before their deception and return to conservative fundamental values.