A few days after his 90th birthday, an Emeritus Professor is overwhelmed by life. It was a Saturday, the Springboks were supposed to play that afternoon, and his computer, phone, nothing would work, everything just became too much. ge-gebergtes is an attempt to make sense of his confrontation with technology. Of growing old and being old: A state of gradual decline and increasing helplessness and dependence. The deterioration of physical and cognitive abilities for all to witness. Children who are far away. The world that is speeding along on a different trajectory. And then, the waiting.