L’écume des jours
Colin and Chick meet Alise and Chloé amid surreal Parisian scenes, and Colin marries Chloé. After a flower grows in Chloé’s lungs, he struggles to keep flowers around her while working in a strange military factory. Chick dies over his book obsession, Alise sets fire to the bookshops, and Chloé dies; the closing tableau leaves Mouse seeking death.