Student skips his exam and stops living
On the morning of an exam, a 25-year-old sociology student in Paris does not get up, lets his roommate-less maid's room under the roof become his whole world, and stops answering letters, seeing friends, or pursuing any goal. He fills the months that follow with deliberately empty routines: aimless walks through Paris at night, solitaire, films watched at random, the same cheap meals, the same bowl of Nescafé. The experiment ends not with liberation but with his standing in the rain on the Place Clichy, waiting, having learned that indifference has changed nothing.