Eurydice, bride of Orpheus, the great musician of Greek mythology, dies of a snakebite on her wedding day. Unable to overcome his grief, Orpheus travels to the Underworld to persuade Hades and Persephone , the rulers of the dead, to offer Eurydice a second chance . They are so moved by his music that they grant him his wish, on one condition — that he not look at her until they  have both passed into the world of the living. Orpheus guides Eurydice upwards, but at the last moment he turns around, and she vanishes — lost to him forever. 
In a year when the global corona virus pandemic claimed so many lives, it was impossible, as many of us sheltered at home,  not to think more than ever about death, as a way of sharing the pain of those who lost family members and friends.