Short Stories
Griffin, a perpetually angry man, attends a techno party in an abandoned train with his best friend Celine, where he wrestles with shame over a recent sexual experience while watching Celine hook up with the charming Austin. Jealous, Griffin encounters a stranger who obsessively explains the intricacies of techno music and offers him a romantic gesture. Though the moment gives Griffin a chance to heal, he rejects it, lashes out at the stranger, and leaves the party, only to be blamed by Celine the next day, who tells him that the stranger may or may not have died from an overdose.
Sebastian, a college student, is on vacation with his girlfriend Valeria and two friends from school. Sebastian, who called it an early night at the bar the evening before, is anxious for his girlfriend to join him for sightseeing. He tours the plaza, looking at the church and the art in the art museum, and repeatedly encounters Felix, an attractive older stranger, while growing more anxious about Valeria’s lack of response. Eventually, he leaves the museum with Felix, and they have a sexual encounter. When the story resumes, Sebastian is heading to meet Valeria and his friends at a record store, feeling guilty but also vividly aware of himself in a way that he hasn’t been for some time because he has been feeling apathy and depression as a barrier between himself and the world.