The character embodied by Taranne, a conceited university professor, is subject to several absurd and worrying incidents from the world surrounding him. He is being accused of walking out naked, of having stained a beach cabin where he has never set foot. People venture to say that he has made a ship reservation, but he cannot remember such a thing. A university chairman accuses him of plagiary in his courses? Thus, a feeling of unreality gradually emerges from non-sensical dialogues and professor Taranne’s inner self is slowly disintegrating, doubting its own existence. While the facts are almost tragical, the alluded pretexts are humorous and the professor’s incapacity to grasp things makes them seem eerie to the audience. Hence the text was a dream-like unfolding with occasional nightmarish hints. Adamow himself notes that the audience functions at two highly contradictory response levels: on he one hand, people unconsciously stand on the side of the central character because each of us has bad dreams or has been afraid and ashamed of being discovered stark naked in the middle of a crowd; similarly, each of us has had doubts concerning insidious remarks; on the other hand, the audience consciously breaks away from the character as he is in reality: not all of us are vain university professors committing plagiaries. These two response levels, identification and breakaway, convey emotion and provoke laughter.