Birds wheel in the dawn light over the city. On the ground, a young man stands at a junction under traffic lights, his eyes raised to the sky. By nightfall, he is still standing there, still gazing at the sky – and he is the talk of Kuwaiti social media. Other men pull up to take photographs and harangue him, insisting he explain himself, but he doesn’t reply. A fight breaks out; the police are called. There is nothing more disturbing for city-dwellers, apparently, than the sight of a man standing still.