After a train accident amputates his hands, a pianist undergoes a risky surgical procedure to receive hand transplants. As he strives to regain his musical abilities, he discovers a horrifying secret about the hands he now possesses, leading to a descent into madness and paranoia.

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in love with a ballet dancer, which disappoints the famous operetta singer Marie Geistinger…

The love of a young Austrian aristocrat to a circus rider is put on a heavy load test when becomes obvious that the former officer has killed the brother of the young woman, a traitor of the country, in the duel.