Music school teacher Emma Blum has a heart-breaking secret, one which not even her boyfriend Nick Sommerfeld knows. He does, however, have the feeling she is holding back from truly letting him into her life. When she was young, Emma had a baby and gave the child up for adoption, and she has continued to suffer from terrible guilt ever since. Then Emma meets young pianist Noah Paulsen and believes he is her son, which throws her completely off track.