Michael, a Toronto Jewish playwright is in search of answers to the slaughter of his great-grandparents and five of their children in the Holocaust. He drops into a seedy London bar for a quick beer and is handed a phone number by a stranger. He calls it. An hour later, he's in a woman's apartment, listening to an astonishing story: murder, war crimes, love. She tells him a story of a man she once guarded - a man thought to have orchestrated a killing-spree in her country - but whose memory has disappeared.

Through an intricate knot of flashbacks and storytelling, time-shifting tales-within-tales, with actors stepping in and out of roles, critically acclaimed novelist Michael Redhill explores what it means to tell, or even know, the truth, and who is able to tell the truth to another.

As the play itself asks: "Why do good people rush to do evil? And what do they become?" From Pinochet to Saddam Hussein, from Yugoslavia to Sudan and Rwanda, Goodness resonates deeply with today's world.