Tomas is in his 40s. He lives a seemingly normal and good life. His wife Sara is a beautiful and gentle woman, well thought of by everybody. They live in a fairly nice house in the outskirts of a Belgian city. They have good jobs. But for years Tomas has been toying with the secret dream of abandoning it all and disappearing out of his life and into some new undefined reality. His secret fantasies have added colour and excitement to his otherwise dull life. Time has come to act, and one spring day he tricks the world to believe he is dead. Once disappeared though, he realises his dreams did not go any further. He has no idea what to do and what to become.
(N)iemand is the story of poor decisions made in the loneliness of one’s own mind. The main character is a person with very limited insight into his own mind and the mechanisms driving him. The main psychological reason for his disappearance is a strong feeling of inadequacy as a partner to Sara, a woman he strongly loves; the feeling that she is too good for him. His escape is in reality the impossible attempt to run away from himself.