by Samuel R Delaney. Dramatised by Mike Walker.
Sometime in the future, when a musician called Bryan Faust is offering celestial music, a damaged young man is hospitalised after an accident at work. Also at the hospital is a nine-year-old telepathic girl who seeks death to release her from the pain of others. Their two minds become entwined as the graphic nightmares of his brutal past draw her in. Only the music of Faust seems to offer any solace.