Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a holiday they have a car accident. Celia, their older daughter, dies and Oriol goes into a coma.
