A palindrome is a sequence that is the same whether it’s read forwards or backwards - a type of mirror pattern. However, a lot of narrative structures are kept together by a palindrome-like symmetry, without being palindromes in the strict sense of the word - a character goes on a journey and then returns, a conflict is created and then resolved, something is lost and needs to be found again, a theme is introduced in the beginning and then reintroduced at the end. Sometimes a story can be described as a ”narrative palindrome”, where in the second half themes and events from the first half are revisited, butin reverse, and with the added meaning and significance of what has come before. This piece is an exploration of the idea of palindrome in the context of musical narrative. The music develops in a linear quasi programmatic fashion, with recurring thematic and timbral ideas acting almost as characters and scenes in a play, but with an underlying mirror-like ABCDEFEDCBA structure, where every section has its own identity in terms of motivic development, sound and texture.