An incredible, unique, and moving documentary about a concert pianist playing the music of the world’s greatest composers to blind, abused, injured and orphaned elephants with extraordinary results. This amazing story began when British musician Paul Barton played piano to a group of elephants at a sanctuary on the banks of the iconic River Kwai in Thailand. In the audience was an abused and blind bull elephant called Pla-Ra. “Pla-Ra was behind the piano with a mouthful of barn grass and I started to play Beethoven. Pla-Ra was chewing, and as soon as I played the first chords, he stopped eating with stalks of grass protruding from each side of his mouth, and that’s the way he stayed until the end of the piece”. “Each time I played music for Pla-Ra, whether flute or piano, there was an identical reaction. Pla-Ra would stand for a while, and then he would curl his trunk and hold his trunk in his mouth until the piece was over. No matter how long that piece was, he would stay like that". Tragically Paul and Pla-Ra’s musical pleasure was short-lived. Yet another victim of the illicit ivory trade, Pla-Ra’s tusks had been hastily removed and the abused elderly elephant developed a serious infection and died. Although heartbroken at the loss of Pla-Ra, Paul has since played piano to many injured and abused elephants and discovered that Pla-Ra was definitely not alone in his musical appreciation. Scientists and animal experts have long been aware of the intelligence and musical ability of some elephants. A fact supported by renowned elephant expert, Richard Lair, who co-founded the Elephant Orchestra in Thailand. “Elephants have a strong sense of rhythm, they can strike something or hit a drum, with absolute perfect timing, and it turns out that’s so unusual as to be almost heard of in the animal kingdom”. Paul Barton’s motivation is simple. He wants to try to make amends for elephants' suffering at the hands of humans. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for a musician. It doesn’t even compare, the closeness, playing to an elephant that’s blind and has had a terrible life. He’s suffered and you can feel it when you are close to him. You can feel his distrust of humans. I hope that the elephants might see us humans in a slightly better way than we deserve to be seen, considering the lives that these elephants have had”.