MAKING LOVE

Who is the violinist who emerges from the shadows of a magic night in Prague and meets a young woman, Costanza, whose eyes conceal "the memory of the world"?

And whose is the music that the violinist plays in a smoke-filled haunt, for Costanza alone, bringing back her lost childhood?

Is she the little girl we see running down the Bark corridor towards the light to the sound of that same music?

That music is an "inverse canon", a musical score that can also be played back to front, and whichhas the power to bring back lost memories.

And it is maybe for this reason that violinist Jeno Varga reminisces over his life with Costanza in this August night of 1968, a memorable date for Czechoslovakia and for the whole world.

Jeno teils her of when, as a child, he played the violin without knowing how to read music, comforting the pigs an their way to the slaughter house, surprising his mother who is reminded of the man she'd loved and who had left her that music, that violin, that child and nothing else.

Jeno teils her of Sophie, a beautiful, famous pianist, whom he seduces, years later, with his music and his talent.

Jeno teils her of the "Collegium Musicum" which he had the privilege of attending, having won a scholarship, and where he meets and befriends David Blau, who willturn out to be much more than just a friend...

And he teils her of that last concert in Prague, where Jeno, Sophie and David's destinies cross and separate in the narre of a passion which overcomes all obstacles, all sacrifices, that reaches beyond life itsel.

The tale comes to an end. But by returning to the scenes he's evoked, the scenes of a long lost happiness, Costanza will discover that the music she heard as a child wasn't just in her memory, but a seal and proof of an identity unknown to her up to now...