breaking through the wall

It's easy to picture the scene if you've lived anywhere near it. It's a scene that takes place in a hundred bars in a hundred cities.

In one bar, there's two men sitting almost next to each other with nothing to say to each other.

In another bar it's a man and a woman sitting next to each other trying to pretend that nothing is different.

On a streetcorner, a man stands wishing he were someone else.

On another streetcorner, there is a man who has no choice.