Recording

For some, it is impossible to remember. For others, impossible to forget. But everyone who hears it is marked by it, forever. For a suburban teenager named Arvydas, it becomes a source of solace after a breakup, but soon leads to confusion and dismay. For rock critic and master procrastinator Raoul Charles, it means a mission fraught with anxiety and doubt. A young novelist encounters it, considering its implications even as she becomes preoccupied with a recent tragedy; The recording is at once a comfort, a call to freedom and reinvention, a dangerous fountain of youth, and a magnetic center of madness and obsession.