Breakdown

A famous journalist lives his normal citizen life, married to a woman from a prominent family. But, conflicts with the manager at work are becoming more often, his marriage becomes unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin rash. Doctors recommend escape in nature and self-examination. Far in the mountains, in a lonely house close to 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 wife's 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.