Adventures of Robert Frobisher

1931. Robert Frobisher, homosexual young man, has to leave his lover Rufus Sixsmith to work on Cambridge at the famous composer Vyvyan Ayrs. He is hired to put on partition the music which the musician has in mind. Robert teaches his contact while writing his own work, Cartography of the clouds. He also discovers Adam Ewing's narrative. One night Vyvyan hears a melody in its dreams; trying to remember itself it in the alarm clock and to make it note by Robert, he escapes him finally. It turns out that it is the work which Robert is composing, Maps clouds. For both artists this melody is their common work. Being mistaken about the feelings of Ayrs, Frobisher lets speak its homosexuality by beginning to get closer and to cherish Ayrs continuation in this common musical success. But the latter setting him a scathing refusal, Robert decides to leave. Ayrs he makes a " blackmail in the reputation ": If he leaves places Robert will find no employment.Robert, who stole Lüger d' Ayrs, hurts the latter (without killing him) as Ayrs seizes the partition. Robert runs away, ends his work by taking refuge with a dirty hotel. Once this one was finished, and by taking care of staying far from Sixsmith while preserving an one-way epistolary relation with him, he commits suicide of a ball in the throat in the bathroom of the hotel. Rufus Sixsmith arrives a few moments after the suicide of his ex-lover.