Drama starring Ed Harris. It is 1824 & Beethoven (Harris) is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success & he is plagued by deafness, loneliness & personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer finish in time for the scheduled first performance
- otherwise the orchestra will have no music to play. Enter Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger), a young conservatory student & aspiring composer. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance & in the end becomes quite fond of her.