The world of music for Erika Kohut is closely intertwined with the world of mania and phobias, relationships with her mother are a painful whirlpool of attachment and disgust, unfulfilled dreams take the form of cruel perversions, and the student is endowed with the role of a tormentor. More than a book about fathers and sons, attachment trauma and prolonged suicide. More than a book about female weakness, the fragility of the mind and the ghosts nesting in Erika Kohut's heart. This is a deafening symphony, a brilliant attempt by Elfriede Jelinek to find at least something human in a person.