Does constant dissatisfaction with your life make you a hopeless romantic? Stagnation is a meta silent film experiment trying to capture theatrical liveliness on camera. Performance as functional. Presence as performance. Hidden narratives. Emotions that go without a witness. And how hard it is to live for yourself. Dissatisfaction from the characters uneventful life is projected onto a poster and he finds targeted advertising hurtful as he is so distraught that they are the ones who know him best.