A question is asked from the very beginning: “Why does a mentally sane person turn against humanity?” The question triggers a whole process of defining “normality” - represented by “Homo Thematicus”. “Home Thematicus” accepts changes the moment his believes are challenged, changes his path to diminish pain the moment he suffers and resists any manipulation attempts the moment he sees a stranger in the mirror.
But “Homo Thematicus” may get sick. He may turn either in a “Homo Sociologicus”, a socially created individual to serve society, or in a “Homo Chameleonicus”, an individual created by a behavioristic code for obeying society. To know who we are, we must know who is “behind the mirror”. However, our first mirror, the mirror that taught us how to look to ourselves, may deform.
The author considers a real case for proving his endeavour, meant to propose a coming back to humanity and the building of a common world.