The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Short summary

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The millionaire Clara returns to town. She promises to give the townspeople money if they execute her former lover. The guilty man cannot be executed — he dies. The city receives a million.

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Clara, a millionaire, arrives in her impoverished hometown. The woman has come to demand justice. In her youth, she loved Ill, one of the locals. When Clara became pregnant, the young man rejected her, finding witnesses who confirmed that the child was not his.

Clara had to leave and become a prostitute. She married a millionaire, was widowed, and inherited his millions.

Clara wants the residents to kill her former lover. For this, she will give the town a million. The woman still loves Illa and wants to take his body with her to keep in the mausoleum.

At first, the inhabitants are indignant at her proposal, but gradually the desire to become rich wins out. The city sentences Illa to death. The sentence cannot be carried out because the man dies of heart paralysis. Clara gives the money to the town and leaves.