About The Event
Innocence tells the story of a man accused of committing a crime, although he is never told about the nature of his offence. He refuses to plead guilty, despite being told by everyone he meets that it is in his best interest to do so. Believing that the scales of justice will eventually tilt in favour of a blameless man, he struggles to prove his innocence, but it leads to dead ends and drives him to despair. He becomes suspicious of everything and everyone. He neglects his lover and fires his lawyer, and is reduced to a sorry figure of a man — exhausted, impassive and alone. In the end, his innocence does not help him to escape the clutches of the law, but neither is the state able to find a shred of evidence to prove his guilt. How will this impasse be resolved?
