Youth plot
Spring. Fred and Mick, two old friends approaching eighty, are on holiday together in a cozy hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is retired. Mick, a director, is still active. Knowing that they don't have much time left, the two friends watch with curiosity and tenderness the confused lives of their children, Mick's eager young writers and the other hotel guests, who all have the time they lack. And while Mick is finishing a screenplay for a movie he believes will be his last major, Fred has no intention of returning to his music career. Yet there is someone who at all costs wants to hear his compositions and see him lead an orchestra again.