Everything is under control, she thinks. Everything is lost, he thinks. And then they meet. And fall.
Only a formal handshake separates two politicians from a sealed contract. But as both stubbornly try to gain the upper hand within the gesture, their grim intransigence takes on a monstrous life of its own.
In his daily commute an old man looses track of time and his grip on an overwhelming reality. He remembers a life long forgotten.