- A guilt-ridden basement pianist fights to become a revolutionary entertainer while battling shocking tragedies, personal demons, and a lust for the spotlight only to discover that the applause doesn't replace her need for love.
- Loren lives to play piano. Raised in a small town, her pianist mother, plagued by mental illness, teaches her to play from infancy. A fire takes the mother's life in front of ten-year-old Loren's eyes. After her death, playing the piano is Loren's way to connect with her mother. Her younger brother Carl pushes her to leave the dead end town and pursue music and her obsession with Beethoven.
Loren plays her way into USC Music School where she meets Van, the son of musical pedigreed parents. Van is already famous as a pianist and model. He rejects Loren's interest in him. Loren's spirit is further crushed when she is publicly humiliated and disqualified from a career making piano competition. Her aspirations dashed.
After her defeat, Loren's father is jailed and she must leave university to take care of her brother. A TV producer convinces Loren to perform on the reality show "Test Your Talent." Initially, her dubious notoriety keeps her from performing on concert stages. But, Loren's dazzling and charismatic stage presence eventually make her a rock star in the stuffy world of classical music.
She and Van reunite, marry and have a son. The two now don the covers of gossip tabloids, and Loren's fame leads her into excess. She betrays Van and he leaves her.
On his death bed, Loren's father reveals the family secrets that cause Loren to relive the guilt from her youth. Losing touch with the compass of her music, her soul, Loren pushes away everyone that cares about her and she ends up in a mental institution.
Van reconnects her with Beethoven's piano music that gives her purpose. From the ashes of self destruction, music and Van's love lift Loren out of the abyss. However, this time she realizes that it is Van, and those close to her, that provide Loren the love that sustains her, not the applause of an audience.
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