In Free Fall

[PROLOGUE]

WE DID NOT HEAR EVERYTHING but we saw most of what happened, for one of us was always there.

A detective with a fatal headache—who loves a theory of physics and does not believe in coincidence—solves his final case. A child is kidnapped but does not know it. A doctor does what he should not do. One man dies, two physicists fight, and a young police officer falls in love. In the end, everything seems different from what the detective thought it was, yet exactly the same. A man’s ideas are his score, his life the twisted music.

It went, we think, something like this.