From diary-style notes and personal memories and conversations, the fictive narrator Reverend Busch reconstructs and documents the stepwise fall of his missing friend, the teacher Konrad Zündel.
Konrad Zündel and his wife Magda, whose relationship after five years breaks down because of everyday things, decide to spend their holidays separately.
The guilty for his departure, due to Magda, who represent the totality of all women, who destroy men with their will to self-actualization.
Not less surreal is the meeting with the French woman Nounou; Zündel spends a night with her, again discovering relation of souls.
Extremely confused, undernourished and now heavily addicted to alcohol, he enters the flat, where the distressed Magda has expected his return for days.
A normal conversation, that would clear these misunderstandings (e.g. the not existing lover), isn't possible, because Zündel now is mentally ill.
Meaningless, inadequate statements, start sounding like symbolic parables, which deeper meaning, promises high gnosis – that isn't reachable, that lies.
Climax of this technique are Zündel's totally meaningless, incoherent answers on the psychiatrist's questions.