Beaulieu Delhomme, a piano tuner, faces the guillotine for committing treason against the newly elected French president due to his part in the bloody worker uprisings in 1848.
The one person who could save him from this fate is his former arch-rival, the celebrated author, George Sand.
The plot leading to his imprisonment revolves around the triangle of composer Fr d ric Chopin, his lover George Sand, and Delhomme, Chopin's loyal piano tuner.
Both Sand and Delhomme compete for the attention .