Once a year, in a convocation of the banquet, they meet, fueled by their refusal to be silenced and their insistence to be heard. They must speak their own story against history. They belong to an exclusive group of historical figures -- who live on -- in order to have the final word.
We are present at their reunion. It is presided over by a master of ceremonies --Theodora, an artist, and a modern day disciple of Gericault, who has been obsessed with decapitated heads. On the banquet table, we see the disembodied heads of: Marie Antoinette, St. John the Baptist, Desire Landru, Medusa, Goliath, Robespierre, Anne Boleyn, Jane Mansfield , Eugene Weidman, Holofernes, the Saudi Princess Misha, and Charlotte Corday .
Every year on Midsummer Night they have met. Tonight they meet again to dispute the narrative that history has thrust on them, to elect new members to the banquet, and to cast out others, to argue, and to proclaim the terrible and eternal distinction that comes with loosing one's head.