a few weeks later, a young filmmaker who has previously sent a script to maria visits her by appointment five minutes before the curtain rises on the opening night of "maloja snake" in london. maria seems preoccupied, so near to curtain rise, and dismisses his suggested ideas about the proposed film role he is offering her as "too abstract for me". when she says the role he has written is too young for her and would suit jo-ann better, he suggests that the character is ageless and that he does not relate to his era with its internet scandals and trashy values. clearly he admires her and her work. maria does not give him a reply as to whether she will take part in the film. then she is on stage, smoking and waiting for sigrid.