The Ministry of Love brings together fourteen "short cuts" that revolve around love, eroticism, art, and magic, with the protagonists interconnected throughout the various texts. There is a young museum employee who meets a failed art historian at a campsite for dropouts by Lake Biel, who in turn helps an unhappy service worker in the Bernese Oberland escape. Elsewhere, a postman suffering from compulsions ensures that a runaway junior innkeeper returns home from his trip to Romania. The web of relationships reveals the humorous, romantic, surreal, profound, and frivolous.