The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle. estate agent, concert, paris, france, parent child relationship, loss of loved one, classical music, chinese woman, piano lessons, squatter, pianist, life changing, piano, new life, life and career