La clase de piano

Abstract

Playing the piano is the greatest passion of Mathieu Malinski, a talented young man from the Parisian suburbs who was taught to play by his neighbor Mr. Jaques as a child. After his death, music ended for Mathieu, becoming his greatest frustration and also his great secret: classes were a luxury that his mother could not afford and an activity questioned and ridiculed by the bad companies with which he surrounded himself.

Fond of playing on the piano at the train station, Mathieu was listened to by Pierre Geithner, director of the Music Department of the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris, who would become his greatest protector. After committing a theft and being arrested by the police, Pierre mediates to commute Mathieu's sentence in exchange for social services at the Conservatoire. This fact would become the gateway to a completely unknown world and full of opportunities for Mathieu, but only if he is willing to accept himself, adapt, commit and make an effort.