Nada by Janne Teller

In a small Danish town, a group of seventh-grade students are thrown into existential turmoil when their classmate, Pierre Anthon, declares that life is meaningless and leaves school to sit in a plum tree. Determined to prove him wrong, the students embark on a chilling quest to find meaning by sacrificing their most cherished possessions to a growing pile in an abandoned sawmill. As the sacrifices escalate in intensity and consequence, the children confront the dark and unsettling truths about the nature of meaning, identity, and the human condition.

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