How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn"t want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill" of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Angry and alienated, his only comfort is the humiliation of others. Is he going mad? Or is it the world around him that"s insane?