While scanning and examining Mozart""s sheet music forSerenade for Thirteen Wind Instrumentsstill resting on musical stands,he blissfully remembered how he was amazed by its genius - and then he rhetorically asked the film""s central question about why God had given talent to such a creature: "Why would God choose an obscene child to be His instrument?":(voice-over and in-person) On the page it looked nothing! The beginning, simple, almost comic...(He glances down at his shoulder wound.) - until a while ago, that is.Yes, I killed him.I killed him for money and for a woman.I didn""t get the money and I didn""t get the woman.Pretty, isn""t it?Intermittently throughout the film that is told from a fatalistic point of view, Neff changes his voice, alternating subtly from a confession to a rhythmic, flowing narration, as he continues o link together the various scenes in the flashback.Their ploy works as anticipated - the doctor recommends a trip to Honolulu ("a long ocean voyage, with plenty of tropical air and sun") - "the only cure.Three pink-dressed bridesmaids run along the street with gift packages - two of the hree are the girlfriends of Stan and Axel (Mary Ann Haenel, Mady Kaplan, and Amy Wright).