When a music teacher in Medieval England finds an alluring young student who can sing the perfect note, his home life comes crashing down around him.

A young British soldier returns to his home in Westminster after the war, only to find that both he and the city have been impacted by the cruelness of the war.

In Iowa, a young violinist is asked to play at a famous poet's memorial. In the process, he gains a new perspective on who and why we grieve.

A sanitarium patient helps his neighbor grapple with guilt after a romantic tryst in Paris.

A professor tries to convey to his students the magnitude of the most perfectly crafted poem ever written in the English language: “Lycidas.”

A string quartet practices Mozart’s K. 590 in the common room of their apartment as the complex manager struggles to recover the fading beauty of the property from the indifferent forces of destruction.

An unnamed person recounts a rhapsody about Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London's East End.

A heartbroken man remembers his ex-lover while reading about the dramatic end to the relationship between two famous poets and listening to his favorite musician.

An American man moves to Germany and falls in love with a married Norwegian woman in his language class. Their contrasting artistic tastes foretell a fundamental rift.

A man attends a classical music concert and uses it as a surrealistic form of escape as he copes with the news of his mother's death.