"Life is like a fish that lives in a fish tank and ends in a garbage bag." This is the life in the eyes of twelve-year-old Paloma. This little girl, who has lived in a wealthy family since she was a child, saw the boredom of her relatives and could not stand the mud of ordinary life, so she decided to commit suicide on her next birthday. With just over a hundred days left in her life, just like going to and from school every day, she calmly picked up an old VCR and started her filming with her family as the protagonist. Because, in her opinion, death is the most ordinary thing in the world, and what matters is not when and where to die, but what you do when you die. She wanted to tell the world the boring and absurd life in her own way when she died. As the days passed, the little box Paloma used to hold the sleeping pills from her mother became heavier. Until one morning when she forgot her schoolbag, she ran into her new neighbor, Ozu Grande, in a malfunctioning elevator. After that, the graceful hedgehog, the gatekeeper, also slowly appeared. She interacts with Ozu and the people around her, gracefully, little by little, she begins to show up, and she begins to be noticed. This elegance has something in common and similarity with the bus driver who is a poet in "Patterson". Life is always mundane, and elegance does not come from the high-end of the floor, but from the abundance of the soul. Renee's study and Patterson's basement, as the twelve-year-old Paloma put it, was an "excellent hiding place," which Maugham called virtually everything in the world. "Refuge" from disaster.
Renee's sudden death brought infinite sadness, and for the other graceful people, the one who fell under the car would be the drunk who sang and screamed. Indeed, this is the real ineffable absurdity and inexplicability of life. And that Paloma, who had long recognized the absurdity of life and seemed to have a cold and strange personality, burst into tears at this time, rushed down the stairs, and stood behind the iron gate for a long time until the sky darkened.
Renee, the graceful hedgehog, tried on Paloma's behalf and relayed to her the meaning of death: "It's like this, it's over in one fell swoop. It's death, and you'll never see the one you love again. , you will never see someone who loves you." In her, Paloma saw the meaning hidden under the ordinary life.
The next day, possibly many days later, Paloma and Ozu clean up Renee's room. After everything stopped, inadvertently, two hardcover copies of "Anna Karenina" were still in the place where Renee left before going out, silently waiting for the next graceful hedgehog. Yes, these thorny guys, aren't they the little prince's rose? Shouting at the tiger, it deliberately revealed four thorns. Tiger, the world, depends on this spike.
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