德国作家前往威尼斯度假，他恋上一个少年，又因为某种机缘滞留威尼斯。此时威尼斯开始流行霍乱，而政府则封锁了消息。作家迷恋少年，长时间地追逐使他精疲力尽，同时他又吃了过于成熟而几近腐烂的草莓，染上霍乱，死于当地。(A German author went to Venice of vacation, where he fell in love with a boy, and stayed there by certain chance. Cholera plague was spreading in Venice at that time, but the news was blocked by the government. Obsessed with the boy, the author was him exhausted after long-time pursuit; he ate strawberries over mature and almost rotten, finally succumbed to the cholera and died in Venice.)