丈夫的突然离去让罗贝塔（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）陷入了深深的痛苦之中，和大多数的主妇一样，罗贝塔的整个世界就是丈夫和家庭，如今这两样东西都已经崩塌碎裂，这让年纪已经不小的罗贝塔该如何自处？
　　悲伤归悲伤，可是日子还是要过下去，带着两个孩子，罗贝塔将家搬到了纽约东哈林区，在那里，罗贝塔重新振作开始了小提琴教师的全新生活。罗贝塔深信，艺术能够陶冶人的情操，即使是从未经受过艺术熏陶的孩子，也一定会对优美的小提琴声产生共鸣。可是罗贝塔所任教的学校的领导却不这么认为，他们不断缩减着罗贝塔的教育经费，但这并没能动摇罗贝塔的决心。

　　1990年代，某城市。钢琴教师何健生（王洛勇 饰）的父亲是一位著名的音乐教育家，曾培养很多优秀学生，可惜英年早逝。他继承父业后，痴迷于教学事业，把全部青春献给了酷爱的钢琴教学中，为此，他付出了高于常人的代价，妻子（史可 饰）也离开了他。学生庄磊（王伯昭 饰）不被学校看好，面临淘汰，何健生却发现了他别人不曾察觉的潜质，主动接手调教他，并独创了一套异于常人的教学方法。几年过后，庄磊在国际钢琴比赛中获奖并远赴美国深造，而此时已耗尽心血的何健生重病缠身，但他并没放弃教学。大洋彼岸的庄磊闻讯恩师患病，随即飞赴祖国，师生相见，万语千言不知从何说起。他当即决定为恩师做募捐演出，可生命已走到尽头的何健生已闭上了双眼......

　　一九二二年，哈札布出生在锡林郭勒草原。他自小就非常擅长唱歌，在大草原上美名远扬。内蒙古自治区成立时，哈札布成为歌舞团的独唱演员，被毛主席誉为人民的歌唱家。他的妻子依德钦劝他回牧区唱歌，他执意不肯。文化大革命中，哈札布冤屈入狱。十年后，哈札布获释。依德钦却已去世。在录音室里，哈札布无论怎样都无法唱出那不断向上攀登又不断向下徊绕的蒙古长调。伤感之中，一首即兴随心的长调《老雁》成为他今生的绝唱。二零零五年，哈札布在他的故乡悄然辞世。二零零八年，联合国将蒙古长调列为世界口头非物质文化遗产保护项目。

　　Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist.   Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her.   Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army.   She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son.   Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist.   She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up.   Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother.   Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her.
　　This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage.   This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988.   François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie.
　　From IMDb:
　　A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.   He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents.   The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents.   As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.