Late Bourgeois World

Liz Van Den Sandt''s ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues.

Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max''s example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how ...