(5 Acts)
The play’s protagonist is a Bank Boss, “a man of small measures and petty calculations who dominates life.” He sees everything as legitimate in the pursuit of making money, but he never adopts a hypocritical stance by covering up his immorality to appear honorable. In short, he is a man who is sincere in his immorality. Furthermore, he is aware that the majority of people around him—starting with his own family members, those he employs, and those he interacts with at various levels of society—who appear honorable and honest, are not sincere.
In the events that unfold in the play, money acts as such a gauge that it reveals the true nature of people as it is...
The work was first staged at the Istanbul City Theater in the winter of 1941-42.
(Date of completion: December 15, 1941)