He also finds himself being helped in his hour of pain by a woman who found her own peace in the renaissance atmosphere of classical music. She invites him into this world that has become her world, a world where despondency has been displaced with a growing sense of universal love, inspired by classical music. After all, the great classical composers, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and so forth, were all children of a great renaissance in which the Principle of Universal Love stood higher on the agenda than we have it today in modern time.

In the course of the story, as the protagonist regains his 'sanity,' a precious love affair unfolds that becomes invariably sexual, in which both the protagonist and the woman guide each other to higher ground. They explore a sphere where love unfolds above the quagmire of inhumanity that is inherent in the growing imperial mania for creating a future for mankind with the mass killing of people.

The sexual love story, Depopulation, Mozart, Ice Cream, and Wine, is a chapter of the novel, The Ice Age Challenge, the second episode of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose, by Rolf A. F. Witzsche.