It is, perhaps, impossible to understand the nature of music without knowing the nature of love – if it exists.
Jacopo and Dasha are performing Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello and as the music unfolds, it offers a chance to relive the stages of their own love story. Abandoned by his mother and adopted by a fragile family with impossible expectations, Jacopo was robbed of a carefree childhood. He was saved by a small violin – an anchor to which he could tether his dreams and desires. Dasha, born in a small Albanian village, grew up surrounded by a kind of love Jacopo has never known. Fleeing the port of Durrës after the regime’s disastrous collapse, she relied on music to shield her soul from the pain. When something unexpected occurs, Jacopo will have to decide if he will turn away from his quest to uncover a past that threatens to poison the present or continue to the future with Dasha.
