While playing the organ at church, elder Franz Liszt receives a bouquet of flowers. With those flowers, he can't help but remember back to a time when he was a younger composer and music teacher, and mutually in love with one of his pupils, Caroline, the Countess de St. Cricq, his muse the inspiration for his musical compositions of love. While Liszt was embraced by the gypsies as the conveyor of the folk music of Hungary to the world, he was not so as a potential suitor to Caroline by the Baron de St. Cricq.