讲述一位失明钢琴家Maria Theresia von Paradis，因为得到某位医师的特别治疗而重获部分视力。但当她得到视力后，上天却夺去她对音乐的敏感度，本来弹得一手出神入化的好钢琴，却因为能见到键盘而令音色变得平庸不堪。 故事根据真人真事改编而成。

Vienna, 1777. The blind 18-year-old Wunderkind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis lost her eyesight overnight when she was three years old. After countless failed medical experiments, her parents take her to the estate of controversial miracle doctor Franz Anton Mesmer, where she joins a group of outlandish patients. She enjoys the liberal household in a Rococo world and tastes freedom for the first time, but begins to notice that as Mesmers treatment brings back her eyesight, she is losing her cherished musical virtuosity...