Music

«Doctor, why is this happening? I can't hear music».
Such is the mystery and tragedy of a young woman who, one fine day, appeared at the office of a Tokyo psychoanalyst and turned everything he thought he knew about himself and humanity upside down. With her strange words, for both her and him, and for all who surround them, the descent into hell begins — into the twilight world of human feelings, where the intimate life of body, heart, and mind becomes the subject of intense investigation. In this winding journey, everything is hazy and changeable; lies and unspoken truths repeatedly mislead, the solution is elusive, and music is — not music at all. In the darkness of the world, the woman stubbornly and courageously seeks the lost ability to feel, which was taken from her at a very early age by the thoughtless cruelty of those around her. The woman treads an uncertain path, occasionally running into dead ends and hoping only that one day, into the darkest of abysses — her own soul — unexpected light will shine. And beside her, amazed and horrified, walk her loved ones, and within them yawn similar black abysses.
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) — a star of 20th-century literature, the most read Japanese author in the world, a holder of brilliant talent, renowned for both his works of the broadest range and variety of genres (novels, plays, stories, essays) and his astonishing biography (an obsession with bodybuilding, far-right political views, harakiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). «Music» — his late novel, an almost detective story about the mysteries of the human soul, a journey into dark depths from which none of us returns unchanged.