A man returns to Germany where the war has stopped and life is trying to continue among the debris. Outside his door his home is waiting for him, Germany. A poor Germany, bleeding, almost dead. Carrying back with him eleven dead comrades he won't dare open his door and look Germany straight in the eyes. Within the cold night and the rain he will fall in the dirty water of Elva River and will dye as well as others with the ghosts and the responsibilities that carried with him. Till the time though that he finds the deliverance through suicide he punishes all those who sent millions of young men to become cannon fodder. Wolfgang Borchert gives through his play his personal experience from the war and gives a desperate antiwar shout for the tragic anxiety of his generation, which has been charged with the mistakes of the Hitler's insanity and betrayed, it tried to reorganize the remains of humanism within the ruins of barbarity. With the special shapes and the characteristics that the heroes take, the play presents the complaints, the hate and the struggle between two generations: the new generation returning from the front and the previous one which has already got over the war and has been made ends meets. 'The man outside' is an antiwar manifest, which criticizes the thoughtless choice of war as a phenomenon of social change, presenting with realism, the terrifying results of a defeat in human existence.