They have lost everything, even their names. They have swapped that of Dunkeltal for Keller: the parents are now called Otto and Augusta Keller, and he simply Franz Keller. Only his bear Magnus is entitled to retain his original identity. The child interprets this absurd alteration in his own way. He tells himself that in the bewildering confusion that now prevails, where the least thing, even a crust of bread, a cigarette butt become a tradeable item, a name too can have an exchangeable value ... he keeps to himself his bewilderment, his doubts and questions, and lets them gravely mature in his solitude.