Plot

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a local bridge. She is rescued and taken back to the hospital and undergoes psychological treatment by Dr. Larsen. Larsen, desperately wants to know the events and persons who drove her to this state and help her. He makes Francesca talk about her past - a past with a controlling guardian, Nicholas, no friends, kept apart from the man she loved and forced to practice the piano 5-6 hours a day.—Kelly

After attempting suicide, Francesca Cunningham hires Dr. Larsen who, using hypnotism, delves into her subconscious in search of answers. Francesca recounts several failed romances to Dr. Larsen, shown in flashbacks, many of which were sabotaged by her cousin and musical tutor, Nicholas, a jealous taskmaster who cares for Francesca deeply. As the subsequent veils are lifted from her clouded mind, Francesca is forced to confront her feelings for Nicholas.—Jwelch5742

Renowned concert pianist Francesca Cunningham is in the hospital in a close to catatonic state, she conscious but not responding in any form, including not talking, to any stimulus, the reason for her mental state unknown. Her case takes on more urgency after a failed suicide attempt. As such, Dr. Larsen, a psychiatrist specializing in the scientific art of hypnosis, is brought in as part of her medical team, he to get her to respond to questions under hypnosis about her life that brought her to this point, hopefully to find that mental break and thus the appropriate treatment to bring her back to a state of the living. What Dr. Larsen learns is the importance of music and performing and it all as triggers, and the dominance of Nicholas Cunningham, her father's steadfast bachelor second cousin, in her life since she was a teenager when she became his ward following her father's passing. He ended up controlling all aspects of her life from her music tutelage, to her life as a concert pianist, to barring her from any romantic entanglements, all done in somewhat of an emotionally cold and distant manner toward her as a person. With those romantic entanglements, she is asked about the two loves in her life, fellow music student, American Peter Gay, whose musical tastes veered into jazz, and artist Maxwell Leyden.—Huggo