Desperate Measures

Fourteen-year-old Dmitri awakens bloody, barefoot, and nearly dead. Having fled from a father whose love is wrapped in bruises, and now beaten by strangers, he is left with nothing but his passion for music.

An old man pulls him from death's edge with a tin cup of broth and an antique violin. He too carries a haunted past, along with an instrument of rare beauty and a belief that real and raw music can heal shattered lives.

Years later and now an internationally renowned violinist, Dmitri vis...