In Nazi-occupied France, music was more than art ? it was survival.

When Élise Moreau, a gifted Jewish violinist, is discovered playing in a secret orchestra, she expects arrest or worse. Instead, Lukas Weiss, a German officer and former pianist, spares her life. Bound by their shared devotion to music ? and divided by the uniforms they wear ? they begin an impossible love that defies the world around them.

As war consumes Europe, their melodies become messages for the Resistance, their concerts acts of rebellion. But when deportations begin and Lukas is forced to choose between duty and conscience, their song is silenced by fire and separation.

Years later, in a Paris reborn from ashes, a mysterious young violinist takes the stage ? playing the same unfinished sonata they wrote together. Each note reawakens a past France thought it had buried, and one man must face the truth that some music never dies.

Haunting, tender, and beautifully cinematic, When the Music Stopped, She Played On is a sweeping tale of love, loss, and the sound that outlived the silence.