I Smile At Strangers

It’s easier to look convincing
when nobody asks what you’re convincing them of.

I Smile At Strangers turns its attention inward, following someone who can still perform the ordinary rituals of being fine while privately losing faith in the person performing them. Guilt, compromise and self-deception accumulate behind a socially acceptable face until the real conflict is no longer between the narrator and the outside world, but between who he appears to be and what he knows about himself.