Xin Wan knows how to pretend to be alive. It's easy to go through the motions - get up, get dressed, eat, visit, see if there is work for him. Come home, bathe, go to bed.

Sometimes all he can do is go through the motions. Sometimes he pulls other people in - Kiet, his lovers, Bae, Liu, Hyo, anyone to give him a bit of connection. As long as there are other people around, he's doing all right, isn't he?

'The songs in your music boxes are all sad,' Liu scribes on the wall one day.

Xin Wan blinks, and everything almost shatters.