This  episode refers to an action scene called “In 40 years, a utopia!” that tests the possibility of a cooperative future but repeatedly shows how scarcity and environmental instability undermine it. With impersonal roles such as a river, a ladybug, a crafted pitcher of value, a fluctuating local currency, community members, and nomads, the play begins around resources and quickly slips into rivalry, competition between species, and disagreement over how to distribute tasks. The economic dimension becomes central through buying, selling, and renting essentials, yet ecological disruption interrupts these cycles when the river overflows and destroys crops, triggering blame and jealous comparisons between groups rather than solidarity. In an attempt to restore cohesion, the sociodramatist reframes the scene into a single nomadic community moving together, but mistrust, fear of theft, and anxiety about quantities reappear almost immediately. Even a final gathering around a night fire fails to stabilize the collective, ending on the recognition that seasonal limits and competing needs cannot be reconciled, and that the “utopia” remains only partially achievable. The broader interpretation frames these futures as metaphors of collective suffocation: environmental disruption forms a constant pressure, social bonds fray into distrust and withdrawal, and each attempted solution is followed by a new crisis, reflecting a toxic loop in which cooperation, listening, and the protection of vital resources are persistently outpaced by scarcity-driven survival logic.

F=Facilitator, P=Participant