A man abandoned by his wife sits alone in his apartment, trying on stories like clothes. Or is that already one of the variations? In this audio play, the cosmos of Max Frisch's most multifaceted novel is reinterpreted. One listens to the production by Rudolf Noelte and understands: "Everyone invents a story sooner or later that they believe to be their life." Through carefully placed music, sounds, and the voices of Robert Freitag and Dagmar Altrichter, the dubbing voice of Liz Taylor and Ingrid Bergman, new worlds are created in the mind. (3 CDs, running time: 3h 32).