A young boy learns to appreciate the music of his upstairs boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Young Christoph is convinced his mother has rented out the upstairs room to a madman. That boarder is Ludwig Van Beethoven who is busy composing his Ninth Symphony, one of his greatest works. The boy and the cantankerously eccentric deaf composer eventually meet and Christoph begins to see the softer side of Beethoven as his music begins to win the boy over.—Kenneth Chisholm <[email protected]>