The play was written for a writing commission from the Chemnitz Theatre. Its subtitle, 108 Minuten Zukunft [108 minutes from the future], immediately sets the play in the future, while the appearance of Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) takes us back to the beginnings of the conquest of space: the first manned flight into orbit, made by the Russian cosmonaut in April 1961.The motif of the emancipation of the computer that takes sole control of a spaceship recalls Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In 2111, Sascha, who was born on Earth, makes her first trip to Mars to visit her grandmother who lives in an Earth colony. She is talking on her personal computer. Suddenly, Yuri Gagarin appears: he is a hologram created by the computer, but Yuri believes that he is a real person. Hearing that Sascha misses her friends on Earth, the computer turns the spaceship around and sends it back to its starting point. Sascha wants the ship to continue towards its original direction, but the computer refuses. Yuri shows Sascha which button to press to restart the computer, but the computer makes it disappear. The play ends when the ship arrives on Mars.