The silent partner

In a brutal world, in a kind of police state, a chemist teams up with a high-level criminal and specialises in disposing of corpses. The crime pays off, of course - at first - but then...

Dürrenmatt uses a commercial concept to show how a man becomes isolated in an underground bunker, how he becomes vulnerable in a world dominated by corrupt police and criminals, how he begins an affair with his criminal girlfriend - and where this initially fruitful venture eventually leads...

The Silent Companion fits into the darker line of Thália's Winter Garden. Whose price is what? Is society really to blame when people's lives are ruined? Responsibility, free will, the desire for revenge and questions of existence - all these are serious themes in a five-storey deep bunker next to a cold storage chamber, among some corpses dissolved in acid...