Kit Armstrong was a child prodigy. Today he is 34, a renowned pianist and composer as well as a scientist, but already at the age of eight he performed in concert with a symphony orchestra, and at nine he was composing his own works and studying physics, mathematics, and music at university. When he was 13, the pianist Alfred Brendel took him under his wing and in effect made him his successor — and this is the focus of the film.

Brendel was 74 at the time. In his country home in England, inside a rehearsal room filled with two grand pianos and artworks he had collected over the years, he began passing on to the young genius what he had accumulated from his experience as a pianist and artist. This continued for years, and for part of that time the camera was also present, allowing us an intimate, sometimes amusing glimpse into the mentorship and working process of the two.

Alfred Brendel died last year, and the film includes documentation of the last concert in which he performed.