In the basement - A photo novel about isolation and fake news As an alternative to a live theater performance, I would like to create the digital project "Soap Opera in the Basement" in moving and moving images. Based on Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", it humorously shows how a man spends the Corona quarantine in the basement of his house and extends it over three months. When he leaves the cellar again after 90 days, his world has already changed so much that he decides that he would rather stay within his four walls as a hermit. There he has to deal with his memories, demons, fears and fantasies. His only contact with the outside world is the Internet. World events reach him via his computer. But are these real? What is conspiracy, what is true? Increasingly, a journey of discovery emerges by the lonely man who confronts himself and the abuse through social networks.