Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almost unbearable.
Professor Mauthner
Lina
Emma
Mary
Elliot
Walter
Fechner
Kurt
Bertram
Homer
Fraenkl