A swarm of people descends into a deadly hysteria ("Clear View"), a nighttime flâneur gets caught in a nightmare of murder and desire ("The Dog, the Night, and the Knife"), a German family legend is dismantled after decades ("The Stone"), and two couples become entangled in absurdly comedic relationship configurations ("Perplex"). In Marius von Mayenburg's very differently structured plays, dream and everyday life are always closely intertwined. Four plays full of wit, in which every social existence appears as a permanently endangered construction. Continuing from the works of the author published in the henschel Schauspiel edition #1 ("Eldorado," "Turista," "Eyesight," "The Ugly"), this volume gathers four works premiered from 2008 to 2010.