These narratives revolve around life and death, as the stories of fathers and mothers, children and the elderly seem to want to demonstrate the course of the world in solitude and togetherness, with helplessness, death, and murder, in agreement and crisis. It is striking how often lawyers voice their opinions. However, on the surface, it appears to be about the classic guilt of the manslayer; in the dreadful normal case, it is the inconspicuous guilt of life's omissions—one of Muschg's main themes since the love stories and the distant acquaintances.