A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.