Odile is riveted to her agenda, Laure is obsessed with home renovation, Paul gets married way too often, Louise is terrified of aging and Hermann is afraid of wasting his life away. These apparently common, often repetative, everyday obsessions, tightly interwoven in all our relationships, are familiar to all of us. The heroes of these short stories embody ten variations on the passage of time and the unsettling strangeness one can feel when meeting someone of the opposite sex. Ten variations on the manoeuvres we invent to escape the emptiness and lonliness of our existence.
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