In the modern climate of distrust, it could be said that we all have a denunciating side. How far we are able to trust at all is the question the core of Sleeper. Johannes is a scientist working in Munich alongside Farid. Their opposing practices don′t prevent them from working well together until Johannes′s view of Farid becomes corrupted by suggestion. A German secret service agent asks him to keep tabs on his colleague and eventually he agrees. Combined with personal rivalry for a woman′s attentions and professional competition, Johannes′s suspicion of Farid extends to the point that he lies out of contempt and jealousy and then must live with the bitter consequences. Benjamin Heisenberg is amazed at how fast societies manifest dangerous insecurities, and explores how easily trustworthy and reliable individuals can make mistakes. Lessons learned from the Third Reich have been forgotten in the post-9/11 world where we argue and counter-argue to the point of not knowing right from wrong. Johannes knows how to be right, but pays a stiff price for that knowledge.