Professor Walther was a middle-aged academic, researcher and professor of the history of philosophy at a university institute in Bavaria. Unable to bear the stresses of the postwar period, he collapses, falls into a serious depression and is forced to take early retirement. The background of his biography is determined by the situation after the German capitulation in May 1945.

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The disaster caused by National Socialism began to unfold in September 1919 when Hitler joined the NSDAP party, it was accentuated with the seizure of power in March 1933, it received a decisive boost with the invasion of Poland in 1939; from there the destruction was the constant, until 1945.  Hiding in a bunker under the Berlin Chancellery, Hitler ended his life on April 30, 1945 by ingesting a cyanide capsule. On May 7, 1945, Germany signed the unconditional surrender in Berlin-Karlshorst.

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Then the military and politicians began to negotiate the conditions under which it would be possible to rebuild cities and resume social life. On an intellectual level, however, there was a collapse of man's self-esteem as such; he had lost faith in himself and in everything that had been called culture up to that point. The philosophical position that emerged from this disenchantment was articulated in France around 1960, moving to the United States around 1970 (French theory). The disappointed man behaved in a typical manner, following understandable logic. "The country of poets and thinkers" (das Land der Dichter und Denker) had produced one of the most monstrous ideologies in history. Consequently, everything that seemed to have led to that ending was discarded. And the race began in the opposite direction.  The culture had been centered on the idea of progress towards a better world; In view of the disaster, the philosophy of disappointment eliminated the illusion, distrusted reason, proposed the strategy of counterattack, the doors were opened to mediocrity, and practiced the methodology of negation. The new philosophical treatises spread: With Auschwitz the hope-bearing traditions ended; Only "great stories" have remained, buildings built with words, mountable and demountable. The holocaust was irrefutable proof of the shipwreck. The ship of civilization was leaking. Therefore it was necessary to throw everything overboard. In the same way that before there had been talk of the search for truth and imperishable values, now appeal was made to the evidence of absurdity.  When the "meta-stories" were stripped of their verbal robe, authoritarian ideologies, undesirable in a multicultural context, were laid bare. Once the depth is removed, it is not the content that matters, but the form used to impress; Charismatic figures are rejected, in their place little idols appear everywhere. The doors of success are opened to the masses. Vulgarity triumphs. TV trash shows are multiplying.​

The philosophy of disenchantment captivated individuals and invaded social institutions. The slogan was "succeed today", Anything goes as long as it helps to achieve that goal. Get there before the others, whatever it takes. "Race" (Karriere) was the magic word, "Walking on corpses" (über Leichen gehen) described the attitude. Where once the seriousness of research was cultivated, the dictatorship of superficiality now prevailed.

The only truth is that there is no truth, it was taught in the classrooms and propagated in multi-pedias. herefore, everyone was entitled to have their own opinion. And society was overwhelmed by a whirlwind of information, thus emphasizing the power of manipulation in the human world when it comes to subjugate and win. This was precisely the principle that had inspired the creation of the Propagandaministerium in the Third Reich, led by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's stalwart.

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Irony of history: The philosophy of the man disappointed by the disaster of World War II had led to the same point from which Nazism tried to dominate the world: the tyranny of propagandistic information.

Professor Walter could not resist the change of mentality in his environment. Pre-retired, he withdrew from all academic activity. He spent his time ruminating on his sadness.​

One day on a town street he met a little girl, started a conversation with her, they sympathized. He asked her for her name, she replied, my name is Malinwska. Wait out here for a moment, I'll be right back. The girl entered a church. Walter stayed outside. After a while, an old woman came out of the church. Seeing that the girl did not return, Walter entered, but there was no one in the church. He asked the townspeople about her. They replied: Malinwska died months ago. They told him where she was buried. 

Then Walter went to the cemetery. He found the grave:​

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Then a voice spoke: Walter, here are only my remains. I am alive, we can meet whenever you want. And so it happened, they continued to meet. During long walks through the forest, Malinwska interpreted from a higher perspective the things that happen in life, but whose meaning the scientist Walter could not decipher.