This is a moving tale of secrets & survival bound together by the power of music from a master storyteller. When Lesley is sent to Venice to interview world-renowned violinist Paulo Levi on his fiftieth birthday she cannot believe her luck. She is told that she can ask him anything at all
- except the Mozart question. But it is Paulo himself who decides that it is time for the truth to be told. & so follows the story of his parents as Jewish prisoners of war forced to play Mozart violin concerti for the enemy; how they watched fellow Jews being led off to their deaths & knew that they were playing for their lives. As the story unfolds the journalist begins to understand the full horror of war & how one group of musicians survived using the only weapon they had
- music.