Six weeks ago, Konrad Greiner finally made his decision to stop writing a reality. Nevertheless, the famous Austrian author, whose works are published by a major German publisher, has been invited once more to embark on a lecture tour in Japan. There, at the Café Excelsior in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, Greiner's novel begins, which he will never write. It is a novel about the literary world and a novel about Austria, specifically about his hometown of Innsbruck. Greiner exposes everyone and everything, including - or especially - himself. Perhaps it is the distance that could have transformed the obedient writer into a thoroughly uncomfortable author. But now he writes no more lines; on the contrary, he has already begun one.