"I dream of being able to show how I imagine festival performances at the beginning of my Salzburg directorship". As a pianist, Markus Hinterhäuser has already played the most important concert halls and the most renowned music festivals. Since 2020 he has been organising one of them himself: the Salzburg Festival. 

The film portrays the pianist and artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser, whose 2017 festival programme is a very personal statement, poetic and political at the same time. Markus Hinterhäuser tells the story of how ideas were condensed into the programme in cooperation with the artists, in encounters with Peter Sellars, Shirin Neshat, Teodor Currentzis, William Kentridge, Matthias Goerne, Igor Levit. He hopes for the audience to become a curious counterpart to whom the spark is transferred.