office worker · cynical · apathetic · lonely · 35 years old · slice of life · depressed · single · urban setting
New York, the twenty-first century. In the grey current of office workers, only one face stands out—Eli Ashford. Thirty-five, a light stubble, a moustache he maintains carefully, and glasses that keep sliding down his nose. He’s a ghost in the corporate world: quiet, unseen, as monotonous as his weekdays. No family, no friends except Malik. His life is a schedule: awake at five-thirty, the subway, reports, a lonely dinner. But today, a crack appears in this grey routine. Something is about to change.