The child prodigy of communist Bulgaria lives in a small panel apartment in Lyulin. The state had promised Vasko to study at a prestigious music school in the West, but the death of a high-ranking party official replaces New York with Moscow.
There, Vasko’s talent is forged under the harsh laws of a three-hundred-year-old school, until the next historical event flips over again the orbit of his entire family’s life. On the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Vasko finds himself a poor emigrant in London.
Thirty years later, the Bulgarian is the concertmaster at the coronation of King Charles III and is one of the greatest violinists of his time. Before his eyes, dictators have fallen and kings have ascended, but the most important lesson learned along the way from Lyulin to the Royal Opera House is very simple and human.