Almost thirty years after the death of the wooden ship, composer Gustav Anias Horn begins to keep a diary, trying to understand the causes of the disaster and the circumstances that forever linked his fate with Ellena’s killer. Dreamy Latin America, dreamy Africa - and examined in all details, “under the lens of time”, the Norwegian provincial town, which became for Horn (and before for Yann himself) a second home... There is no clear boundary between imagination and reality - at least in this novel, since neither memory nor music knows such a distinction.