A Grand piano dangling from a helicopter over the desolate Burl Crow, on the run from his father, it offers a glimps of something rich and strange, a sign of a world beyond his own. Burl finds himself following the piano's trajectory until, cold, wet and starving, he emerges from the bush onto an isolated lake to hear music—piano music, unlike any he's ever heard. It's here he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, standing on the deck of a remote cabin, conducting as if he were surrounded by an orchestra rather than a forest and lake. In just one day his eccentric genius changes Burl's life forever—opening him up to a world her never imagined, one he will fight to keep, even if it means telling the biggest lie of his life.