Midnight Sonata

In an ancient city haunted by the ghosts of forgotten melodies, one musician dances with the past.

Corrie left college behind without a degree, but she's still got her music. In 1990s New Orleans she enters a world-renowned piano competition for emerging pianists dominated by men. She's determined to make a statement. Ultimately, she chooses a piece composed by the famed New Orleans composer Ignace Leblanc against her mentor's advice to play something safer. The work, Le Fleuve, is volatile, a reflection of New Orleans' rough and chaotic history. But Corrie feels connected to it and the world needs to hear her version and prove something to her asshole of an ex-fiance who is also competing.

In 1893, in a city that has undergone many changes, a young woman named Marie Guidry is the daughter of a wealthy landowner. She has serious plans to never marry and drown herself in her own music. She has a gift, one that irritates her parents. She can listen to music and play it perfectly upon hearing it once. And she has taken to writing her own compositions. But when she is set to marry Ignace Leblanc, a man several years older than her, Marie must, at the urging of her parents, keep it secret. It is one thing for a woman to be talented at the piano, but to compose their own music is unacceptable. So she keeps it secret until one day her husband finds her secret collection of compositions.

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