PART I: Family Album
The actor who once played Hamlet reviews his role, though his position is ambiguous, because there are three Hamlets (two actors and a singer).
PART II: Europe of Woman
Ophelia is depicted as the archetypical woman, oppressed, driven to suicide and insanity, and tearing up the photographs of the men she has loved.
PART III: Scherzo
Hamlet is showered with books by dead philosophers, and dead women tear his clothes from his body. Ophelia performs a striptease and, and Hamlet dresses in her clothes.
PART IV: Pest in Buda Battle for Greenland
The actor Hamlet admits that he is not the character Hamlet; the drama is no longer staged because no one is interested in it. He imagines that if it were played, it would be at a time of revolution, when, in keeping with his indecisive character, he would be impartial, taking part on both sides of the barricades. In reality he goes home to watch television. In a „danse macabre“ the three Hamlets enter three oversized television sets to express their disgust at the insanity of costumer society. Three naked women representing Marx, Lenin and Mao appear; Hamlet splits open their heads with an axe, thereby destroying one particular Utopian vision.
PART V: Wildly waiting/In dreadful armour/Millennia
Ophelia is sitting in a wheelchair in the depths of the ocean as corpses and body parts float past. As two doctors wrap bandages around her, she continues in the defiant vein of Part II: „Long live hatred, contempt, rebellion, death. When it goes through your bedrooms with butchers’ knives, you will know the truth.“