The Romeo and Juliet Chronicles,

A mother disappears after abandoning her teenage son and his two younger brothers to her husband. The husband dies a few years later, broken, alone, fired as manager and estranged by his musical prodigy son, but the mother does not appear to claim her children. World press alleges the man died from pneumonia following a heart attack, the conditions complicated by AIDS, others know the real truth. The mother is in hiding. The oldest son, now acting mother and father to his young brothers, sets out on a fruitless search for their mother.