In this highly evocative and complex but also lyrical play, Kane again engages with themes such as psychic violence, abuse, helplessness, anxiety, horror of death (one's own or of the other), and the redemptive power of love. The fourth play by Sarah Kane Crave is conceived as a string of poetic monologues, which are – compared to her previous works – written in the language evoking distinct visual imagery and drawing from the sphere of sensuality.