A man who couldn't afford a piano as a child stops to play one in a store as his companion thinks about his potential and the importance of self-confidence.

The prideful uncle of a child piano prodigy pushes the girl to the detriment of her craft. A veteran musician warns him of the future that lies ahead.

A boy impresses an eccentric music teacher with his love for music, but only one girl in his class understands that at the root of this love is his desperation to reach his absentee father.

In the absence of his parents, a young boy reluctantly turns to his elderly maid for help when his piano teacher starts to make inappropriate advances on him.

A journalist visits the Florida home of a deceased world-renowned pianist to hear him play Chopin from the afterlife.

When a musician is faced with harsh criticism from a revered teacher, the life he had always planned goes up in flames.

A piano player recounts the various women he fell devastatingly in love with, breaking his heart and making the city in which he lives unbearable.

A piano tuner visits the home of a middle aged Creole woman who is struggling to move on from her parents’ death after having spent a majority of her youth looking after them. Over the course of multiple visits, the piano tuner convinces her to seek treatment for her depression.

A husband living in suburbia quarrels with an increasingly unruly piano tuner in his home, all the while eagerly anticipating his wife's return.

In 1950s New York, a world-renowned female pianist develops a mysterious condition that leaves her unable to play. Forced to confront her unhappiness, she decides to rent a studio at Carnegie Hall to sort out her failing marriage and career.