At work, Adam incarnates the persistent official, who checks substandard dwellings with an unruffled expression. He wants to do something different, something like music. His teenage daughter is ruthlessly direct in saying what she thinks of her father: he is a "victim" (and that's meant as an insult), because he still lives in his own debt-riddled home, which the rest of the family has long moved out from. And he is embarrassing because he never says or does anything that she can brag MUSIC is a laconic, mildly sarcastic gaze at the distressed life of the divorced man.
A conscientious civil servant dreams of a career as a musician.
At work, Adam incarnates the persistent official, who checks substandard dwellings with an unruffled expression. He wants to do something different, something like music.
His teenage daughter is ruthlessly direct in saying what she thinks of her father: he is a "victim" (and that's meant as an insult), because he still lives in his own debt-riddled home, which the rest of the family has long moved out from. And he is embarrassing because he never says or does anything that she can brag MUSIC is a laconic, mildly sarcastic gaze at the distressed life of the divorced man.