The film documented Stern's rehearsals and performances of violin concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms.

Stern is featured with the famous Chinese conductor Li Delun, who also acted as his guide and translator on his trip.

One conductor was imprisoned in a closet for playing works by Ludwig van Beethoven, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when Western music was prohibited under the rule of Mao Zedong.

Among many others talented players, young cellist Jian Wang (at the time only ten years old) is featured briefly.

[2] Another performer, violinist Vera Tsu Weiling, was featured playing Caprice after a study in the form of a waltz by Saint-Saens, arranged by Ysaÿe.