Every person is confronted with moments of being alone. The term knows many faces. On the one hand, it is the dropout who escapes from his everyday life because he longs for silence, or the single senior citizen who develops strategies to fill the time she has alone.

To find out how she lives with and feels about being alone in everyday life, the student tracks her sensations for a week—every day, every few hours. She explores in which situations and how often she feels lonely in everyday life, and when she feels the urge of wanting to be alone.