Marcus Belgrave says that Frankie saved a girl's life who had a knife pressed up to her throat by stunning the audience by playing quickly.
After Frankie was thrown in the river, a hairless dog pulls him where he is found by Baffa Rubio, an owner of a sardine factory who raises him as his own.
When Frankie is around six, he climbs up a tree and watches the military bury six bodies with a girl named Aurora.
They send Frankie on a boat by bribing sailors after El Maestro gives him his guitar, the six magic strings and lets him perform an American song in public.
Frankie meets Django Reinhardt on a British port after being abandoned by the sailors and plays him Reinhadt's song, "Billets Doux."
Frankie meets his aunt who refuses to take him in after he confuses her with his mother and because she had not spoken to Baffa in years.
Frankie travels back to Villareal and learns that Baffa has died but has left him a photo album.
Frankie teaches at a university in the Philippines but returns to Spain when his daughter, Kai, enters a guitar competition.
At the grave of Francisco Tarrega he finds his guitar and meets a hooded figure who has been following him since he found Kai.
At Kai's competition he plays, "Lagrima," and forgives the nun, causing the sixth string to turn blue.