Orpheus’s music makes even animals listen and rocks want to dance. But when he loses his beloved wife, Eurydice, he only sings songs of love and loss: about Zeus’s cupbearer Ganymede and Pygmalion’s statue Galatea; about Aphrodite, who found and lost Adonis before finding him again.

Can Orpheus’s music soften the heart of Hades, God of the Underworld, and convince him to return Eurydice to the land of the living?