“Hoissuru” at Menorca Film Festival

Hiroko is a 23 year old Japanese girl that suffers from a condition caused by listening to a specific sound frequency inside her head. This heightens depending on the sounds she can hear, increasing during the day, when there is more background noise, which makes her prefer the night time. Every time she listens to this sound frequency she gets a small nose bleed. This great problem drives her to a terrible solitude, day dreaming in her room while playing with all sorts of analogic and digital equipment (spectrum analyzers, equalizers, noise-reducing headphones, etc...). A combination of drugs are able to temporarily cancel this disturbing frequency that prevents Hiroko from leading a normal life and enjoying the small things in life such as music, one of her passions. In her room while analyzing sound frequencies, Hiroko discovers that there are some voices in particular that could minimize her problem forever and would enable her to give up the drugs she has ended up terribly addicted to. All of the voices recorded by Hiroko fail as at some point they contain the terrible frequency, but this changes when by chance she meets Agnés, who is obsessed with the Japanese culture and with whom she establishes a strong connection. Agnes has a voice that will calm her pathology. This becomes a necessity for Hiroko, making her want that voice forever. Agnes replaces Hiroko's silence with her own stories, in which she will confess her innermost secrets to the young Japanese girl, leading to a relationship between them which will become symbiotic in nature.