The Water Station is a wordless, slow-tempo meditation on the lives of refugees. The play was written in 1981 by Ōta Shōgo, who drew inspiration from his own experiences as a refugee at the end of World War II. Over two hours, a flow of survivors fleeing an unnamed cataclysm confronts the audience. Despite the surrounding bleakness, each character’s encounter with a thin thread of water liberates something in them: grief, memory, hope, repressed desire.