25-year-old Mozart arrives in bustling Vienna, determined to carve his own artistic path beyond his celebrity childhood. Recently unemployed and free from his domineering father, he finds an unlikely ally in a young singer who will become his wife, the fiery but fiercely loyal Constanze Weber. Her cultural connections bring Mozart into the orbit of the respected and pious court composer, Antonio Salieri. Intrigued, yet disgusted, but not immediately threatened, Salieri brings him into inner circles, and the two begin a friendship.