Papa plays beautiful music on the violin, until the night when there is a pounding on the door and a Nazi soldier snatches the violin away. Dumped in a cellar for years, the violin warps and cracks until one day a luthier finds it and determines to fix it. A man buys the violin for his son, remembering that his grandfather played the violin before the war. The boy practices every day, eventually becoming a violinist and traveling the world, filling concerts halls with the music of hope.