These astonishing stories - born on teh edge of fantasy and reality, are but a starting point for the analysis of certain human models of behavior, attitudes and states of existence. Their heroes are mainly intellectuals: teachers, engineers, journalists atc. who are brought to marginal situations by unusual, fantastic but unavoidable events that are most often rooted in the everyday situations of a Central-Europe recovering slowly from the daze of dictatorships lasting more than half of a century.