Kang Gun-woo (or Kang Mae) is a world-renowned orchestra maestro who is a perfectionist. He is not an easy person to work with and is feared by all his players. By chance, he comes across a woman named Du Ru-mi who plays the violin, and a young police officer also named Kang Gun-woo who is a musical genius without formal training. The three soon get tangled in a love triangle as Kang Mae attempts to salvage a local orchestra.
The unlikely orchestra
Du Ru-mi works as a public civil officer, but dreams of playing in the orchestra one day. Her chance arrives when she get approved to make Seokran a music city, with the budget to hire an orchestra.
However, she is scammed for 300 million won (300 thousand US dollars in 2008) by the promoter. The professional members refuse to play without being paid so as the last resort, she assembles a group of players who are willing to perform for free, including:
- Jung Hee-yeon, a housewife playing cello
- Bae Yong-gi, a cabaret playing trumpet
- Kim Gab-yong, an oboist with Alzheimer's disease
- Ha Yi-deun, a high school student playing flute
- Kang Gun-woo, a traffic police officer playing trumpet
- and Du Ru-mi herself, playing violin.
However, the world class conductor Kang Gun-woo, demands the best performance from the very best players. It is revealed that it is his first time returning to Korea in 10 years, after refusing to conduct a performance in front of the president and the general public, believing that his orchestra was not good enough.
After discouvering the state of the members, Maestro Kang long demands to immediately return to Vienna after the first rehearsal. However, as Du Ru-mi and Kang Gun-woo help rescue Maestro Kang's dog from an overdose, he agrees to conduct the local orchestra. Despite high tension and hesitation to continue, he stays until the end and leads the local orchestra to do a nearly impossible performance. Maestro Kang is offered a director position for the newly created Seokran Orchestra, a lifetime position that he has been dreaming for many years. He decides to accept the position, but fires all the local orchestra members, much to their collective dismay.
