Traumatized by an accident which 'involved something falling from the sky' and leaves him eight
and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him
Remainder's hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely
remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the
distance the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering lethargic cats
lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for
authenticity he starts re-enacting more and more violent events as his repetition addiction
spirals out of control. A darkly comic meditation on memory identity and history Remainder
is a parable for modern times.
