The story of two lovers brought together by a chance encounter—unplanned and unexpected—and by an affliction for which there is no cure: muteness and partial deafness. Consequently, their communication took the form of a unique, poetic idiom—the language of silence. For silence can, at times, be more eloquent than a thousand spoken words; it is a silence brimming with meaning—a meaning that, in this context, reveals the aesthetic value of the self’s union with its other half.