Director Jan Schmidt-Garre explores the personal and professional crisis faced by composer Anton Bruckner, who was forced to choose between remaining in his hometown of Linz and continuing his teaching career, or relocating to Vienna to launch his career as a composer. A difficult period of soul-searching, the early-life conflict had such a profound emotional impact on the famed composer that it instilled his symphonies with an unmistakable air or power and passion.