- The famous classical singer Sophie Martell has been blind since she was twelve. The beautiful young woman does not let this stroke of fate take away her courage to face life. She enjoys life, has a wonderful apartment in the lagoon city of Venice and dreams of a career at the opera. That dream seems within reach when one of her biggest fans, American eye surgeon MacCormick, offers Sophie a chance to try a new surgical technique that could restore her sight. While her old singing teacher Jacob is happy about this news, Sophie's slippery agent David Rauch goes about his crooked business unperturbed: Sophie has no idea that her advisor is shamelessly betraying her, exploiting her and tapping into her private wealth to pay off his horrendous gambling debts. When David hired the Hamburg journalist Eike Blohm to have Sophie's biography written, the singer was not at all enthusiastic at first: she only wanted to entrust her life story to a woman. The first meeting with Eike doesn't go very well because he doesn't know how to deal with Sophie's blindness. However, when the self-confident singer and the sensitive journalist get to know each other better, it doesn't take long until things start to spark between the two. The lying David observes this development with suspicion. He fears that Eike's sleuthing could expose his machinations, especially if Sophie should actually get her sight back as a result of the upcoming operation. Eike and Sophie finally learn everything about David's fraud from Giovanni, the son of Sophie's housekeeper. But before they can settle accounts with him, the tricky eye operation is pending. In a mixture of fear and joy, the young woman in the hospital is looking forward to the moment when she will pull the bandage off her face. Meanwhile, David prepares to escape from Venice.—ADR Das Erste
- Just fired from a Hamburg magazine, plastic art critic Eike Blohm suddenly accepts a commission from friendly editor Lothar to go write a biography of star blind, whimsical soprano Sophie Martell, who lives in Venice but isn't accepted for the opera given she can't be physically trusted on stage, only performing with her regular pianist and trusted music teacher Jacob Meerbaum. She's shielded and granted every whim by her housekeeper Rosanna and agent-manager David Rauch, who designed the biography and secretly steals her art collection replacing it with replicas to pay his casino debts. Despite her absurd objections at Heike's first visit, they date again and fall in love, so he gets to uncover the art theft when warned by Rosanna's estranged son, gondola man Giovanni. Meanwhile Sophie promises all help to the mother of a blind girl to become a pianist and share in her own hope to be cured by a Chicago fan, eye surgery professor Mac Cormick, once she can deal with he irrational fears.—KGF Vissers
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