Julie Andrews is Stephanie Anderson, a world renown concert violinist whose brilliant career ends suddenly when she is stricken with multiple sclerosis. Two more devastating blows follow: her conductor-husband (Alan Bates) leaves her for a younger woman, and her protégé (Rupet Everett) throws away a dazzling future in order to play in Las Vegas for big money. Not even the help of her concerned therapist (Max Von Sydow) can save the violinist from one self-destructive act after another. The moviegoer leaves the theatre convinced that talent is a poor stand-in for courage in life’s darkest moments. Andrews gives an outstanding performance which is somewhat muted by director Andrei Konchalvsky’s melodramatic excesses.