

From an early age, while still at school, he realized that what he lacked in courage he made up for in intelligence. When faced with physical confrontation, his stomach churns and his breathing becomes noisy, without him being able to prevent it. So he always put up with everything, or almost everything, from his classmates, later at university, and now at work. Until one day everything changes, a colleague gives him the courage he didn't know he had, leading him to the poetic exaggeration of someone who had endured everything until then.

From an early age, while still at school, he realized that what he lacked in courage he made up for in intelligence. When faced with physical confrontation, his stomach churns and his breathing becomes noisy, without him being able to prevent it. So he always put up with everything, or almost everything, from his classmates, later at university, and now at work. Until one day everything changes, a colleague gives him the courage he didn't know he had, leading him to the poetic exaggeration of someone who had endured everything until then.
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6.7A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.
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