A woman truly ahead of her time, Clara Wieck lights up the stage with her beauty and talent, captivating some of the greatest musicians of the period. But at the height of her career, Clara leaves the stage to marry composer Robert Schumann and raise their children. When Schumann dies, his student, now-famous protege reappears to ask Clara to be his wife but Clara is consumed by a mission to return to the stage so the world will hear her husband's music