The Howling Silence

The living and the dead - there is something that binds them. For the living are endlessly fascinated by tales of the dead, whether they are about an old ancestor whose ghost reputedly haunts an old ancestral home about to be torn down; a child never allowed to be born, whose little frightened call "Mummy! Mummy!" fills his mother's dreams at night; an airline pilot compassion, terror and above whose ghost is forever condemned to roam the earth with that of his mistress for an unspeakably cruel suicide pact that plunges a hundred others to their deaths.
The dead, too, appear to be fascinated by the living. They want to come back, to reassure, console, seek revenge, seek forgiveness, or simply to connect across an immense gulf of inescapable fate that we call darkness and mystery. Death may bring silence but it is a silence howling with the urgent needs, hopes, desires, pains and torments on both sides.