Darazs_Kornel_Lorant
To everyone else, he is the perfect student: polite, intelligent, and on the fast track to a future he's supposed to want.
But this is just a role he plays. A mask to hide the truth.
At 21, he moves to the historic university city of Pécs to start his life, but he's already a ghost. He is a detached spectator in his own story, watching himself perform the part of 'The Son' and 'The Student' with a cold, clinical precision.
Haunted by the shadows of a father who left and a mother he can't help but hurt, his new life is not one of freedom. It's a life of financial spreadsheets, missed parties, and the crushing weight of a poverty that isolates him from a world he can't afford to join.
The city's ancient streets and bustling lecture halls are just a backdrop. His real world is the four walls of his sterile dorm room, the bitter static of phone calls home, and the pages of a black notebook-the only place he is honest.
He watches, he records, and he asks himself one question: How long can you perform a life before you are completely disqualified from living one?