Oh, it's a story! That was adapted into a popular musical. It's about a man named Erik who covers his disfigured face with a mask and lives in a secret lair beneath the Opera house where he eventually becomes infatuated with one of the opera singers, Christine.

[And then it ends badly for him but he won't bring that up.]

Ah, it's not really bravery, though. Before I came here I barely ever went outside, but here that isn't really an option.