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Oliver Sacks theorized that it’s amazing how people with Alzheimer react to old familiar songs. “Music touches springs of memory and emotions which may be completely unaccessible to them”. The protagonist of Forgettings is music, and the power it has to awake emotions and memories in lethargic people, even when every contact with reality is gone. “The past is sort of embedded in the amber of music, and people can regain a sense of identity, at least for a while.” An incredible experiment with four Alzheimer patients who regain for some moment a contact with their past and their present.