Avant-garde pianist Michael Heller’s music is dark, angry and dissonant, but it is also brilliant. His compositions are an outpouring from a troubled and disturbed childhood—a childhood devastated by his father abandoning his family when he was six … and by his twin brother Ray seeking revenge by savagely murdering their father when he was eleven.

Now after years of struggling, performing his music for less than appreciative audiences, Michael is on the verge of a major breakthrough in his career—one that could finally free him from being financially dependent of Ray. Only one problem, Michael’s twin will do anything to keep that from happening, including murdering those in his life.