Mimikry

A young man stands motionless for eight hours in the center of a city. Frightened passersby call the police. He keeps his hands buried in his pockets. Who knows, maybe he is armed. He does not speak, does not react, shows no expression, not even when a special unit takes him into custody. It is said in a message that he is probably mentally ill, which goes out during this record summer. How can this be? No one seems to know him. Three protagonists recount the story of a person who has decided not to participate in a societal struggle for space. A person trying to disappear, camouflaged in the anonymity of the city and the self-centered individuals surrounding them. Ann Esswein's debut explores the tension between conformity and abnormality and the emancipation from pre-fabricated life worlds.