Five hours before her planned suicide, Nora receives a call from Doreen and realizes she has forgotten Leo’s piano lesson. Doreen explains Leo is with his father and may quit due to other commitments. Nora’s apologies change nothing, and the call ends, intensifying Nora’s sense of failure and futility.

An hour later, Nora meets her elderly neighbor, Mr Banerjee. He shares that the chemist’s delivery boy will now bring his pills, so he no longer needs Nora’s help. The small role she played in his life disappears, reinforcing Nora’s belief that she is unnecessary.

Back in her flat, the silence and reminders of Voltaire’s absence weigh on Nora. She takes antidepressants but fixates on her despair, scrolling through empty social feeds and feeling like “antimatter.” She opens wine, sits at the piano, and thinks of happier moments teaching Leo, which now feel like evidence of loss.

As the wine takes hold, Nora concludes she isn’t made for this life and catalogs the selves she never became. She says she misses those she has loved into the empty room, then leaves Joe a heartfelt voicemail absolving him of blame. With rain on the window and the clock at 11:22 p.m., Nora writes a note and decides it is a good time to die.