A work in 21 parts based on inspiration stolen from Brecht's Baal and retold by Jonathan Mark Sherman.

Jonathan Mark Sherman's work, "based/inspired/stolen from Brecht's Baal," captures the tumultuous, erratic, and aimless life of a young man, Clive. Written in the past tense and set in the 1990s, it refers to Clive, a cursed figure of the modern age.

Bearing the "sins" of the 20th century on his shoulders, the hero is now disgusted, numb, and indifferent to pain, misery, love, affection, death, and even to other people. Even when he realizes that his own death is approaching, he remains apathetic.