Breakdown

A journalist lives his smooth citizen life married to a woman from respected family But conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often his marriage is unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin disease Doctors recommend resting in nature and selfexamination In the mountains in a lonely house near the lake he meets a woman also unadjusted and lonely The consequences of this encounter are beneficial Capable to love again he gets his moral strength and disease retreats He breaks off his contacts with his wifes family and with petit bourgeois of his former life confronts his boss and wins realizing that this is only a first victory which has straightened him up