Albert Camus’s The Plague is a collection of testimonies from different stakeholders in a pandemic. The novel displays the vulnerability of individual existence, reminding us to confront the “real” we witnessed, instead of embracing the histories written by the authorities.

In this work, by transforming the public hearing setting from a Cantonese theatre adaptation of the novel in 2020 Hong Kong into an interactive audio installation, the ever-escaping distance of truth is to be re-heard, while the violence of disintegration is also to be witnessed.