At first glance, this tale couldn’t be more simple: a son narrates the love and life story of his mother and her one great love. Yet the impact of this short moment in which two people cross paths and then, at the end of an epoch, are catapulted into opposite spheres, couldn’t be more profound impact. While Edwin, initially an impoverished conductor, ascends into the highest circles of Zurich society, Clara’s family loses their fortune, and along with it their future. All Clara has left is music, and her memory of a desperate love.