The physicist Möbius has taken refuge in an insane asylum to keep his dangerous discoveries secret from the world. But he is not the only one whose madness has a method. Two of his fellow inmates turn out to be secret agents of hostile powers and the head of the asylum is the only real madwoman striving for world domination. Dürrenmatt's shrill crime comedy describes a world in which everyone believes they can manipulate and control everyone else, a world of surveillance and dissimulation.
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