A literature teacher struck by amnesia just hours before New Year's; a young pianist in love with a professor at the Moscow Conservatory; a former major and his sons who set out to conquer Hungary in the turbulent 1990s; a journalist for the 'Strong and Independent Newspaper'; a philology student who meets a Spartan Tsarevich... Every road leads to Eggplant City. Every story is part of a score. Only the attentive reader will hear the symphony and discover just how deep the orchestra pit goes.