In Germany, the elder Frau Traude Krueger gives piano classes in a prison for a few prisoners and the security guard Mütze. When she sees the rebel and aggressive Jenny Von Loeben playing piano, she immediately identifies her potential and offers to teach her for a competition. Frau Krueger finds that Jenny was a prodigy when she was a child; abused when she was a teenager and has been imprisoned for murdering and decapitating a man. Along the period they work together preparing for the exhibition, Frau Krueger discloses secrets about her love in World War II while the self-destructive Jenny has four minutes of glory and recognition of her talent. 这一刻,让我如火屑般舞动,然后消失。谁的核桃硬的壳。四分钟:欧洲出品。四分钟,生命的宣泄与释放。黑白的海洋。典型的德式艺术。音乐的救赎~。Bravo。裂帛。《四分钟》:燃烧生命的华美。 年届八十的克鲁格夫人(Monica Bleibtreu)有极深的钢琴造诣,因为藏有不为人知的青春秘密,她六十年来如一日地在一所女囚监狱教授钢琴,不在乎有无薪水,也不在乎学生的多寡。费劲周折将一架崭新的钢琴搬到监狱后,她的钢琴课却因一名学生的自杀面临被终结的危险。 替人顶罪的叛逆女孩杰妮(Hannah Herzsprung)要求学钢琴,但因举止粗鲁遭到克鲁格夫人的拒绝,前者自顾自地弹下流畅、激情、放肆的音符,后者发现她在音乐上不可限量的才华,定下苛刻条件答应教她,又强迫她去参加一个专门挖掘21岁以下的天才钢琴师的大赛。慢慢地,音乐冲破了两人巨大的年龄差距,她们曾受过深重创伤的心灵也渐渐通过彼此获得慰藉,然而,一切并非表面般风平浪静。