Escape

“[T]here is no gate, no lock, no bolt,” Virginia Woolfe wrote in A Room of One’s Own, “that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” But what if your mind is so untethered and unruly you find yourself longing for the gate, for the lock, for the bolt? This is the conundrum N. faces. He is paralyzed by thoughts, by indecision, by a paradox of choice that makes it feel as if there is no choice at all. No one seems able to help—not his sister, not his psychologist. And then he has an epiphany: Incarceration! He’s finally made a life decision! The only problem? Landing himself a prison sentence proves much more challenging than expected. How far will he go? Choose to see Escape to find out.

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