: The mystery deepens when a local girl, Mariye, goes missing. Guided by the "Idea," the narrator must "kill" the Commendatore to open a portal to a metaphorical underworld to find her. This surreal journey forces him to confront past traumas, the nature of artistic creation, and his own identity. Deep Themes & Metaphors

In Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore (translated as La Muerte del Comendador ), the two volumes explore the journey of an unnamed portrait painter whose life unravels after his wife abruptly leaves him.

: Seeking solitude, the narrator moves into the mountain home of Tomohiko Amada, a famous artist. He discovers a hidden painting in the attic titled Killing Commendatore , depicting a scene from the opera Don Giovanni . Soon after, a mysterious ringing bell leads him to a stone pit, and a two-foot-tall physical manifestation of an "Idea"—taking the form of the Commendatore from the painting—appears to him.