A European musical journey with, as guide, the Catalan violist and conductor Jordi SAVALL, who here evokes the highlights of a life devoted to the baroque repertoire.

Alternatingly, interviews, extracts from concerts and rehearsals.

“Between the musical excerpts – solo or at the head of his vocal and instrumental groups – the gambist and conductor tells very simple and beautiful things about literature, utopia as a “source of energy and creativity", the artistic Europe which preceded political Europe by two centuries... Filmed in the year of the Catalan musician's 80th birthday, a beautiful documentary looks back on the life and career of the man who brought his instrument back into fashion, the viol of gambe » - LE MONDE