An unnamed middle-aged archivist in a small Swiss town reflects on the path not taken in this moving melancholic reflection. When we find him, the archivist has lost his job at the local newspaper, displaced by digital technology. Having inherited his parents’ home, he is comfortable nevertheless. With time weighing heavy on his hands, the archivist especially obsesses over Franziska, a school friend whom he had a crush on, and who goes on to become a famous singer. What would it mean to rekindle a relationship with her, he wonders, even as his increasingly small world boxes him in slowly.
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