A loving, intimate portrait of a talented female cello player, the piece is also an elegant mise-en-scène of music itself and the way it inhabits the emotions and the body of its interpreter. At the top of her form as a director, Akerman translates music into images, the world of pure sound into that of cinema, drawing on art-framing, perspective, chiaroscuro, the subtle movements of light sculpting a hand, a face, a space, like a Flemish painting. At the suggestion of a few words, spoken by the director in a confessional tone, music becomes biography, yet remains pure form; the invisible becomes visible, even physical, and touches our souls like the delicate hand of an angel.

Sonia Wieder-Atherton has created music for several Akerman films, including Night and Day and American Stories.