This is a private film document of pianist Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995) visiting Odessa in Ukraine for the last time in 1995.
During that short visit, the pianist, considered as the last of the Romantics, searched for the concert hall where he gave his first recital as a child before he and his family fled the Revolution and found refuge in Baltimore.
Cherkassky visits the apartment where he was born, the Odessa Philarmonic Orchestra led by Hobart Earle, the Opera house, the musical school of Stoliarsky and wanders around his birth city with friends.
The movie starts at the Festival de Chopin in Nohant where Cherkassky performed in 1995.