Inspired by Mathias Malzieu's The Mechanics of the Heart, where the protagonist has a clock in his heart to keep it functioning, yet he must avoid intense emotions like anger and love, or risk breaking the mechanism. This serves as a metaphor for life: despite our efforts to control it, powerful passions can sweep us away. Mechanical Heart explores the duality of fear versus surrender, showing that intensity outshines time and that truly living means embracing, not evading, death.