Manuel Barrueco?s 2004 solo recital at the Peabody Conservatory of Music is featured throughout the film. Also excerpts of a performance of Rodrigo?s Concierto de Aranjuez before an audience of twenty thousand in Antwerp,... more » Belgium, and the premiere of Roberto Sierra?s Folías with Víctor Pablo Pérez conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. Manuel shares his life journey from Santiago de Cuba and his first public performance at the age of eleven to his debut recital at Carnegie Hall and the international concert and recording career that followed. He also tells of his family fleeing the oppression of Castro?s Cuba and arriving in America with only the cloths on their backs. It is an extraordinary and uplifting story of persistence and achievement in the face of enormous obstacles. The documentary covers Manuel?s openness to a wide variety of styles and his collaborations with non-classical guitarists like Andy Summers, formerly of The Police, and jazz guitarist Al Di Meola. David Tanenbaum tells of recording a duo arrangement of Lennon & McCartney?s Penny Lane with Barrueco in the same Abbey Road Studio where the Beatles recorded the original.« less