Beschrijving

They mocked Eli. His peers called him ‘Zipper Lips’. His own father called him a ‘faggy, wussy excuse of a son’. His mother cultivated the musical side of Eli but she didn’t protect him from the onslaughts of abuse from the world around him. Then a brutal tragedy robbed Eli of his voice. But in a filthy alley, with prodigy-like skill, Eli learned to speak with his clarinet. From there he learned to busk for money in the streets. When this talented street musician is discovered by a classically-trained orchestra, Eli turns it into his own symphony of madness. In order to find love and purpose in that madness, Eli must overcome his greatest enemy: Silence