In a society that has completely restructured its value system, all academies teach only one thing: how to become useless.
Here, daze, walking, observing ants, and writing unread poems are the core courses. The "gazing into the void" of the graduation examination will determine the fate of each student: those with the best grades will be promoted to the "redundant layer of society" and enjoy lifelong support; those who pass will be reduced to the working class; those who fail will be eliminated by the system.
Kai was a top student in the old days, proficient in all "useful" knowledge, but he was on the verge of failure in this exam that was about survival. He found that the harder he tried to practice letting go, the farther away he became from being truly "useless". When he witnessed in the pure white examination room that those students who were naturally good at "uselessness" easily obtained the "freedom" he dreamed of, he began to suspect that there was a huge contradiction hidden behind this perfect system.
During the twenty-four hour gaze test, Kai touched the essence of existence in front of a blank wall. When the end-of-examination bell rings, all students face a diversion: go left to the "Worry-Free Hall" where they are supported, and go to the right to the "Division of Labor" where they work.
Kai stood there and made an unprecedented choice.
He took a step back.
This step made him an existence that could not be classified by the system, an "observer" who wandered outside the rules. When everyone is moving forward in the established direction, his retreat is quietly changing this world based on the paradox of "useful" and "useless".
