In this play, the author reflects on a period of transition between life and death - a coma - and how this parenthesis is experienced by the protagonists of very different backgrounds. Despite excellent reviews, for my part, I have not been deeply excited by the characters. Some passages are steep, such as when Julien "transforms" romantic transit while two pages before it even jaded by life and women. The evolution of the character's state of mind could have done with more delicacy. The end also seems pretty predictable. The idea of creating a kind of "waiting room" intermediary between life and death, which has a setting for hotel run by a doctor and silent assistants, where residents are hastily called to take the elevator but do not know if it's up or down, live or die, is excellent against.
I quite agree with the opinion of the actress Francine Bergé (who played the role of Dr. S ...) who thinks that Dr. S ... is none other than the author, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt ( as Doctor S ... he has power over all people, knows all of them but do not know what there was in the Hereafter).
Quick and enjoyable read, as always with this author. Good read but no more.
Very personal opinion: it is a piece that deserves to be seen on the stage and not to read! I think I would have been charmed by discovering it in this context.