In this episode, the sociodramatist proposes a fresh frame focused on imagining “in 40 years” something desirable, guiding the group into a process of elaboration and collective construction before initiating the improvisation.

The characters of the scene are the following:a large pitcher of value made by craftsmanship, a local currency that is sometimes lacking, a river, a ladybug, two members of a small community, and nomads.

As the scene begins, tension emerges immediately through a hostile stance expressed by the river toward a community member, establishing nature not as a passive setting but as an active, reactive force. Conflict then multiplies across scales: rivalry develops between the ladybug and the dragonfly, while the ladybug also feels threatened by the community, and the community in turn labels the ladybug a parasite and seeks to eradicate it, revealing how quickly ecological imbalance becomes moralized and turned into scapegoating. The crisis escalates when the river overflows and floods the land, destroying crops and triggering despair across the community; disputes break out among community members as blame circulates and coordination collapses under pressure. In response, the group converges on emergency measures, naming replanting rice as the only viable option and moving toward infrastructural control through the construction of a dam. Seeking external support, a community member allies with the ladybug to ask another community for help, while the river voices a broader critique of human behavior, stating that humans are never satisfied, sharpening the ethical dimension of the scene. A further shift occurs when the jar introduces nomadism as a possible solution, and the sociodramatist formalizes this transition by changing everyone’s roles so that all characters become nomads. The group then walks together as a single moving body in search of food, but mistrust quickly arises within the nomadic formation, showing that even when the structure changes, scarcity continues to produce suspicion and fragility in collective cohesion. The game ends with this unresolved tension, leaving the “desirable future” vision exposed as difficult to sustain when environmental disruption and fear of shortage continually push relationships toward conflict rather than cooperation.

F=Facilitator, P=Participant