After 39 years of marriage, the doctor Willi Merkatz is left by his wife. Crisis, timeout, separation? Willi Merkatz tries to shape his new life, reinterprets the past, and then threatens to sink into self-pity. At the same time, his old Berlin apartment is being transformed into an Ayurveda practice by his wife's new Indian lover, and a decision must be made about who will get the vegetable knife filled with memories. He races frantically along the Avus, seeks solace in classic literature, and struggles to fall in love again. "Willi Merkatz is left" is a satirical novel about an older man battling decay and his dependence on relationships.