This beautiful movie is not a romance, a about the struggle to be happy despite of everything you have to do. It's all about seeking freedom, to make the music you really want to make. During the period of the folk music, that really comes from their hearts, they're forced to add political songs into their repetoire. Then after the move to the dearly hoped freedom in Paris,, they have to make silly lounge jazz music because of commercial reasons, sing texts they don't like, work with people they have to please. Freedom is only at the other side, no compromises.
