在这部高塔剧情片中,壓抑的鋼琴家保羅一見鍾情孤獨的低音提琴手利爾，兩人因而同住開始譜出幸福的戀愛樂章。但悠揚的樂曲總有停止時刻，隨著利爾入獄兩人的感情逐漸畫下休止符，殘酷分離與漫長等待，保羅逐漸適應了沒有利爾的日子，展開全新的生活。
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
