Trumpet Lesson

Fascinated by a young womans performance of The Lost Child in Guanajuatos central plaza, painfully shy expatriate Callie Quinn asks the woman for a trumpet lesson and ends up confronting her longing to know her own lost child.When Callie became pregnant in 1960s rural Missouri over thirty years ago, her outraged father, with her mothers acquiescence, insisted that no one knowand Callie complied. She went away, and she gave up her baby. She did it to protect the babys fathera black teenfrom the eras racist violence.When Pamela, the trumpeter whose music flows from her heart, enters Callies life, Callie begins to dream of opening her own heart. But instead she remains silent, hiding her longing and risking giving up everyone she dares to love in order to safeguard her secret. Callie tells herself she does so to protect her daughter, but ultimately, in order to speak, she must confront the deepest reasons for her silencethe ones shes been concealing even from herself.