A significant part of the impact of Bernard-Marie Koltès's works is owed to the settings of their action: places where one must expect unpleasant encounters. 'Quai West' takes place in the decommissioned port of a large industrial city. Here, the businessman Koch arrives with his secretary to take his own life. A web of false hopes stretches between the characters: Jeer wants something from the other, yet they cannot connect. In the second play, a dealer and his customer meet 'In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields,' an abstract location somewhere in the capitalist world. It begins with a probing with words, a linguistic exploration of offers and desires, even before they truly materialize.