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The second part, "1903: Ash or Anarchism": Ash, an accountant, a "sleepwalker" who tries in vain to save the world. Ash didn't understand why his coworkers who committed fraud were given important tasks, but he who worked hard was fired. In his view, a world with inverted values ​​is a "bad debt", and he is eager to "liquidate" social injustices. In this era, however, Ash's efforts appear futile and contradictory. He was dissatisfied with the world of black and white, but he was unable to make the right choice: In order to save an actress who was engaged in dangerous performances, Ash bought an acrobatic troupe, but soon started a sensational women's wrestling competition; in order to save a friend who was in prison, Ash sought help everywhere, but in the end he chose to report an innocent person... In a chaotic era, he was part of the collapse of value.

"The Innocence" is a masterpiece of the novel by the Austrian writer Hermann Bloch, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature and is known as one of the "Four Great Novelists in Central Europe". The story takes place in Germany in the pre-Hitler era, with the family of diamond merchants A and Baroness W as the central characters. It tells the love-hate entanglement between them and vividly presents the loneliness, numbness and pain of little people in an era of value collapse. The novel makes excellent use of a variety of literary expressions, showing romanticism, expressionism, realism and other styles in different chapters. Each part is seamlessly stitched together by a unified poetic framework, becoming a wonderful work of art. "The Innocence" has a profound insight into human nature and is an important literary work that reflects on European history.