Highly regarded violin restorer Stéphane works and plays squash with his longtime business partner Maxime.

[4] The film features a number of performances of chamber music by Maurice Ravel, played by Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin), Howard Shelley (piano) and Keith Harvey (cello).

[5] The film contains only excerpts of Ravel compositions, but the soundtrack album includes them in their entirety, performed by Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin), Philippe Muller (cello) and Jacques Rouvier (piano).

A fourth Ravel composition not excerpted in the film, Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure, is on the soundtrack album.

The track listing: Emmanuelle Béart practised violin for at least a year before the film began shooting, so that she could convincingly mime the performance sequences.