When she was fifteen, Violet Hudson fell in love with the piano after hearing Antoni Kafka, a renowned young pianist, at a world-class pianist. She also falls in love with him. But as she becomes a pianist herself, Violet and Antoni begin a heated rivalry that ends poorly and leaves her heartbroken when Antoni rejects her after she confesses her feelings. Years later, after tragedy in her family, she decides to enroll in college at twenty-five. On her first day of classes as a freshman at Gracen Conservatory of Music, Violet quickly discovers that the new handsome professor who is teaching one of her classes is Antoni Kakfa.