The characters are as quirky as the situations are absurd. A couple of crooks count their stolen tickets, a loner fantasizes about his neighbor while looking at a hidden camera or an old couple prepares their suicide together.
Each chapter tells of different protagonists living in the same building. Everything is punctuated by a power cut, gunshots and characters crossing paths. We quickly realize that everything is happening at the same time. When a character intervenes in a story, we move on to them in the next chapter to find out what they just experienced.
Tobias Aeschbacher is not kind to its characters. The repetition of the tragic fate in each chapter does not make you want to get attached to them. We discover in a cold atmosphere that they each have extraordinary composure when faced with a gun or a threat. The way each of the protagonists is brought in is intriguing: what relationships and what links exist between each of them?
Colors are effective for finding your way around time. In each chapter, there is a passage where the boxes are tinted a dark blue. It’s time for the power cut.
From the beginning of this work we have the information that the building is not common and that the space is not necessarily logical. The apartments are not numbered in order, for example with the number 12 next to the front door of the building instead of number 1. The decor is refined and the objects present in the rooms are not there by chance. They are used for storytelling. An extinguished candle to show the passage of time or even lamps going out.
The colors are generally dull, except for the bright red color of the blood. You can’t miss the gore side.
We enter an unscrupulously offbeat universe with a dose of black humor.