Walter Matthias Diggelmann (1927-1979) was one of Switzerland's most famous and also most controversial writers. Although his novelistic work is strongly auto-biographical, he always engaged in Swiss politics. In this movie, he says: "Although I am writer, my existence is that of a human, a contemporary, a witness, a believer, a doubter, a desperate, an accepter, a refuser, one who loves and wants to be loved, a hater, a creative, an ambitious, a good and a bad mensch". Filmmakers Walter Marti and Reni Mertens offered Diggelmann one hour of time in order to explain and to defend himself, to accuse, to apologize, to reconsider his judgments. This film was an experiment in order to see how far somebody goes if he is given an hour of speaking time without any censorship, how honestly he describes himself and how well he is able to communicate himself to the audience. We see Diggelmann in the Theatre du Jorat, coming on stage with his wine and his cigarettes and explaining why somebody who tells the truth destroys himself.
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