"Ritual" is a collective image of the primitive rite of initiation. To become a man, part of a tribe, a young man must go through ancient trials and make a metaphorical rebirth. In addition to the main character and the tribe, there are two polar principles in the play: the maternal feminine, expressed by mourning intonations of the oboe, and the masculine, in the form of a mentor-shaman with a deep bass clarinet voice.

The world has changed, such rituals have practically disappeared from it. We grow up without them, not realizing the boundaries of the transition from one state to another. Perhaps they were far more important than it seems to us now, and part of the primitive being that lives in some of us will plunge into the contemplation of such a rite with a predatory desire.