Two plays are paired here. In the first, a town’s medical officer discovers that the new public baths are contaminated and, when he insists on disclosure, faces political manipulation, press betrayal, and communal hostility that test the costs of truth. The second concerns an idealistic returnee who unsettles a comfortable household by exposing past compromises and hidden sufferings, as a wounded wild duck becomes a central symbol of shattered illusions and the moral complexity of human self-deception.