Julius returns home to find his mother has replaced him with Albert, a lodger who now occupies his old room—and her affections. As Julius struggles to adapt, hidden tensions resurface, unveiling a dysfunctional family dynamic.
This work examines binge-eating livestreams in contemporary internet culture through the metaphor of a tower rising from the desert, symbolizing exploitative online corporations. The protagonist, a man in poverty and constant hunger, is guided by a bird representing his inner self. As profits grow, he falls into a cycle of excessive consumption and self-destruction. The bird’s death marks the loss of his final rationality, and he realizes he has destroyed his only escape while the system continues exploiting others.
In the midst of an existential crisis, Y. ostracizes himself to live the rest of his days in solitude, locked in an underground bunker with a system designed to euthanize him at a random time. Both dead and alive, his fragile peace is shattered by a series of apparitions - symbols of the very things that make us human in the first place.
