Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business--and finds himself turned into a little old man.
A common man is financially taken advantage of by corrupt government officials in this political satire.
Farmers held hostage by the weather often despair, and yet there is resilience to be found in the communities that depend on the damned rain.
Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism.
