The story of a group of classical music students of the Beijing Central Conservatory who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution. From being dedicated students of Bach and Beethoven, they became Red Guards devoted to class struggle, then suffered years of exile and hard labour before ending up, against all the odds, as players in some of China's leading orchestras. The film is presented by Anxi Jiang - a piano student at the Conservatory - and centres on her experiences and those of her mother and several of her classmates. Tonight's programme was filmed entirely in China and includes a wealth of Chinese peasant music, revolutionary songs, western classical compositions and music from the Beijing Opera.