After an accident, a virtuoso violinist has to learn to play the violin again, but her illicit affair with a psychotherapist threatens her new success.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
YOLANDA FARASHAN (45), a former virtuoso violinist, hasn’t recovered from an accident that severed the tendon in her hand. Suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts, Yolanda decides to learn how to play the violin again with only three fingers. She seeks the help from a violin teacher KYRA.
When Yolanda and Kyra clash over whether Kyra can help her or not, Yolanda calls a crisis hotline and talks to HARRY SIMMONS, a psychotherapist. Harry was recently fired from his private practice when he had an improper affair with another therapist JENNA. She accused him of sexual
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Yolanda’s husband, GEOFF, feels alienated. Yolanda convinces Kyra to teach her how to play the violin again and overcome her injury. Kyra finally agrees. Soon Yolanda learns how to play using three fingers, but replacing her damaged finger with her pinky. Kyra encourages Yolanda to perform in front of an audience, but Yolanda is resistant.
Jenna goes to Harry and tells him that she’s still in love with him. They have sex and Jenna promises to drop the lawsuit. Jenna is devastated when she learns that Harry tricked her. Jenna is fired and Harry is rehired.
Jenna spies on Harry and sees Yolanda leave his apartment. Jenna confronts Yolanda and tells her that she had sex with Harry just a few days ago. Yolanda doesn’t acknowledge Jenna.
Kyra arranges for an audience to watch Yolanda perform. Yolanda is taken by surprise, but gives a brilliant performance. Yolanda, furious at Kyra, punches her.
Yolanda goes to Harry’s apartment building, but just sits her car. Harry approaches and Yolanda lashes out at him for not coming to her performance. Yolanda realizes that Harry doesn’t genuinely care for her. He’s just a womanizer. Enraged, she hits Harry with her car and then runs over him, killing
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...her did she finally realize that her daughter was a human and she was born to make mistakes. Jenna proves to be a human because she has most important elements of a human.
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Although, she too is made to be an outsider because her teacher, Sister Zoe, gave her a “special” seat at the front of the room away from the rest of her class (Alvarez). Sister Zoe had done this to make it easier for her to be able to tutor Yolanda and not disturb the rest of the class (Alvarez). This excluded Yolanda from the rest of her class and added another obstacle to her integration into the American society. Her fellow classmates already know that she is different from them and this added distance make them even less likely to interact with her. Taking place in the 1960’s, Sister Zoe explains to her class what happens when a bomb goes off and its nuclear fallout by drawing on her chalkboard (Alvarez). Later on, Yolanda looks out of the window to see little white specks falling from the sky, little white specks that look just like the ones her teacher had drawn on the board when she was explaining the picture of a bomb; not knowing any better she screams “Bomb!” (Alvarez). This instance highlights her lack of understanding for her new surroundings. As her class erupts into a frenzy, Sister Zoe explains to that it was just snow, which leaves Yolanda fascinated (Alvarez). Having been brought up in the Caribbean Yolanda would’ve never see snow before. Her struggle of not being able to distinguish between snow and the fallout of a bomb heightens how strange
characters are in engaged in a dialogue which is common for a mother and a daughter to
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