One day a mathematician made a calculation that was quite unfortunate for him: the waste of human energy was, by far, a calamity for all life on Earth. Working harder no longer made sense. Our hero gave up his job. His life was like a big dream where time passed day by day. And hurrying was nonsense. But just when the human machine was about to break down, then Death appeared before our hero's face. So our old mathematician decided to go to the small village where, during his childhood, he had been happy...