A male figure that seems to be falling or floating – actually a depiction of such a figure in the typical pictogram of Penck – appears here against the background of a ghostly black silhouette reminiscent of the shape of an eagle. The two figures are surrounded by a row of falling dice that symbolize the coincidence mentioned in the title. In view of the figure at the mercy of chance, Penck seems to be picturing a cipher of fate, of people thrown into their fate. The eagle is also associated with a more up-to-date social criticism, because the eagle as a German heraldic animal is always a reference to Penck with his German-German biography, to his latent or manifest opposition to the ruling system - here, too, the fate in which System the individual lives, is accidentally and not good or bad per se.
