This is the biographical movie of pianist named David Helfgott. Telling the story in flashback, David is a prodigy boy in playing a piano as he grows up while his father abuses him with the memory of his childhood: He do not have an opportunity to play the piano. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study abroad; however, after the piano competition he attends, he later suffers from a mental breakdown and returns to Australia to a life in hospital. Many years later, he is released, and one day, he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally successfully returning to the concert