 The 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spends a summer with his father on Count Pallavicini s estate preparing for an important examination at the Bologna Philharmonic Academy. However, in between his studies he falls in with the local boys of his own age, and also feels the first stirrings of love for Antonia, a girl from a nearby villa. Tasting for the first time the life of a normal 14-year-old, Mozart decides to fail the examination ...