In this city, people lose their voices in the dead of night.
Wen Yu is a third-generation voice collector. He specializes in finding voices for those who have lost theirs. The sound of a well, the sound of a mill, the sounds of a rice shop, a child's laughter: he records every sound on the street and returns them one by one.
Until the night he was five, when someone took away the first sound he ever cried.
Before his grandfather died, he left him a sentence: Your voice... is... in...
Deep in the city is a voiceless thing that survives by devouring voices. It collects voices, sells voices, imitates voices, and dares to sell even the original voice.
Someone who buys the sounds of an entire street is going back to learn to speak like that street. Once they learn it all, the street becomes theirs.
Holding the last recording of his original voice, Wen Yu walks into the city. He will reclaim his street and his voice, and find the "thing" that survives by devouring voices and dares to sell even the original.
