An English pianist, who never plays in public, lives in a big old house. The master lives in isolation and only keeps company with music. And she, from Africa, whose husband was arrested for politics, somehow came to Rome and became a tenant and housekeeper to an eccentric pianist, earning money to go to medical school. Her music is full of rhythm, she is also alive, in the struggle for survival. The weird pianist who lives upstairs is infatuated with the African woman who lives downstairs in his strange way. The pianist suddenly caught the woman one day and said he loved her. She was indifferent to the pianist. She said she was married and her husband was in prison in Africa. "help me get my husband out!" She said. He apologized and never mentioned the same old words again. But slowly, she found that the works of art in the old house had mysteriously disappeared, and at last even the piano was hanged away, when she received a message from her husband that he was coming. She knew it was the result of a bribe from a pianist who sold his property. And what about her choice?