A play, also known in English as The Just Assassins, based on a real event in Russia in 1905. A small group of revolutionaries plans to kill a grand duke with a bomb, believing violence may serve justice.
When the plan meets an unexpected obstacle, the characters must face their own doubts about the act. They argue over what is allowed in the name of freedom, and whether killing can ever be innocent. The play dramatises a question central to Camus's thinking, the moral limits of political action.