Huis clos

After their deaths, three characters find themselves in the same room: Garcin, a journalist; Inès, a post office clerk; and Estelle, a wealthy socialite. They do not know one another, come from very different backgrounds, and share neither the same convictions nor the same tastes. In this room a trial behind closed doors begins, in which each of the three characters judges and is judged on the acts that make up their existence. Here Jean-Paul Sartre describes “his hell”, in which there is neither executioner nor instruments of torture: “hell is other people”.