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"The Tenant" perfectly interprets Sartre's "hell is other people". A nightmare constructed from daily life, a suffocating world with grotesque characters and absurd tragedies. Those traps, whether real or fake, lead people step by step into loss, and all they see is "fear". Trelkovsky was introduced to an old apartment. The former female tenant is lying in the hospital with her life or death uncertain. She jumped from the window of the rented room. Why did she jump off the building? Trelkovsky had no time to care. He invited friends to celebrate his move to a new house, but his neighbors complained because the sound was too loud. He wanted to be the perfect tenant, but things went awry. All kinds of strange things happened one after another: someone forced his way into the room, and he wanted to call the police, but the landlord ordered him not to do so; he found a hole in the wall of the room and dug out bloody teeth; he saw a person who looked exactly like the female tenant appearing in the building opposite; someone also put him into women's clothes while he was sleeping... He suddenly understood that the residents of this building wanted to turn him into the original female tenant! Why do they do this? Is this all his delusion or reality? Is it the neighbor who is crazy or himself? Trelkovsky went to the window...