After the death of her husband, a famous violinist, Dora Fabiani discovers he led a double life. She gives his violin to Amir, the talented son of an impoverished Bosnian couple. But then her own son lays claim to the valuable instrument, and a dispute breaks out. A psychologically sensitive depiction of the growing antagonism between the deceased musician and his wife, between the unfulfilled longing of Amir’s mother and her constantly drunk husband, and between classical music and the folk songs drunkards sing in the grimy bars.