Second Life

One can find in A.'s resolution the wager between art and life that is a tradition in Western literature. In doing so, it collides with a joyful message that considers the question decided by a savior in whom one only needs to be believed in.

By accepting the invitation to preach a Christmas sermon in East Germany, A. exposes himself to this temptation - but also experiences others with whom he has not bet with. He learns that he can dispose of the figures of his own invention as little as of other people he meets. For having almost only winners at the end of the original bet, however, a trick is necessary: the performance of the tragicomedy "Amphitryon" in a place between ocean and desert, which has something fairy-tale-like. Behind the scene, a spoiler is already preparing: a viral parasite that threatens to expose the achievements of Homo sapiens as self-deception.