How can you feel unheard music? The director, who suffers from bilateral progressive hearing loss and cannot hear high-pitched sounds, becomes intrigued by the Cuban carnival music called Conga. She embarks on a journey to Santiago de Cuba, the birthplace of Los Hoyos Conga, driven by curiosity. There, she becomes fascinated by a remarkable female musician, Gladys Esther Linares, also known as Mafifa, who played the bell, a metal percussion instrument. The director's quest to trace Mafifa's footsteps goes back and forth between a first-person road movie and an essay film. There aren't many records left, but many people have intense memories of her, who passed away 40 years ago. Rather than compiling fragments of memories to reconstruct Mafifa's life and music like a conventional documentary about a musician, the film resonates cinematically with the presence she left behind to the director herself, Daniela Muñoz Barroso. The scenes captured directly by the director with a handheld camera meticulously explore the landscapes, objects, people's expressions, and gestures as if she heard them through her eyes. The auditory limitations are filled with different elements as if the trace of sound is filled with memory and imagination. The film's sound design tries the director's approach to immersing into the Conga through sonic attempts and narrowing the sensory and emotional distance between the filmmaker and the audience while elevating the film's amplitude. [KIM Shinjae]