The Piano Tuner

In the year 1886, the quiet life of Edgar Drake, a reserved and middle-aged piano tuner in London, is upended by an extraordinary request from the British War Office. He is tasked with an improbable journey to the remote and perilous jungles of northeast Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano belonging to an enigmatic army surgeon, Dr. Anthony Carroll, has fallen into disrepair. Dr. Carroll, whose unconventional methods have made him indispensable to the imperial design, insists on having his piano perfectly tuned amidst the chaos of colonial expansion. As Drake navigates the exotic, beautiful, and dangerous landscape, he is drawn deeper into Carroll's world, a place where the lines between civilization and wilderness, sanity and madness, and colonial ambition and indigenous culture blur. What begins as a simple mission of musical restoration soon transforms into a profound exploration of identity, purpose, and the unsettling allure of the unknown, challenging Drake's understanding of his own ordered existence and the true nature of the empire he serves.