故事发生在1830年的欧洲，帕格尼尼（大卫·葛瑞特 David Garrett 饰）是一位风流成性但极富才华的小提琴演奏家，此时，帕格尼尼正处在职业的巅峰期，在经纪人乌尔巴尼（杰瑞德·哈里斯 Jared Harris 饰）的协助之下，帕格尼尼用自己的音乐征服了整个欧洲。

　　The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental hospitals. The destiny of Komitas? This is the magic beauty of Armenian culture and the abhorrent brutality of Armenian history. A cultural and artistic world that was slaughtered with a curved knife. A humanity that doggedly advances towards an apocalyptic catastrophe, that does not recognize its own original purpose, eradicates its own memory, its final roots.

Mario, a young dancer living in a small village has to face the loss of his beloved best friend Lenz, victim of an attack in a gay club.