With her all-female ensemble, comedy expert Vanessa Stern explores the political figure of the confidant. Loyal, important and always in danger of falling out of favour, he forms, together with a small selection of other chosen ones, the innermost circle of power and can be found worldwide in the second row. It is a figure steeped in history, whose charisma and modus operandi were already described by Machiavelli; an alliance of men which is currently (Top Secret!) taking to the world’s stages in a new light.