Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with...
The fates of five young people, according to post-war Vienna police files: three reckless women get on the wrong track, one man becomes a thief, another a murderer.