Novella. They sat together at the lunch table in the cafeteria of a generous insurance company, discussing God, the world, and Arno Schmidt. When they meet again in Anklam, two life plans collide. The narrator has worked here as a teacher and runs an antiquarian bookstore. The other, Euler, then a mathematician with literary ambitions, comes as an investor to build a landfill. Uwe Timm tells the story of the late reunion of two men who, in the early sixties, before the great upheaval, were searching for their path as students in Munich.