 "Remainder" tells the story of an unnamed hero traumatised by an accident which "involved something falling from the sky".Eight and a half million pounds richer due to a compensation settlement but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, "Remainder"'s protagonist spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past, such as a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, or lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them.These re-enactments are driven by a need to inhabit the world "authentically" rather than in the "second-hand" manner that his traumatic situation has bequeathed him.