A motion picture begins sustaining Hilary & Jackie when youngsters existence taught by their mother to dance & play instrument; violoncello for Jackie & flute for Hilary. Jackie doesn't require practising seriously initially, however once she does, she becomes the virtuoso, quickly rising to international prominence. Marriage to piano player & conductor Daniel Barenboim (played by James Frain) follows. Hilary, but then, plays within the community orchestra & marries Christopher Finzi (played by David Morrissey), the boy of composer Gerald Finzi. the film, though focused primarily in Jacqueline, is finally just about a relationship between them sisters & their dedication to of these an additional; to help Jacqueline across a nervous-breakdown, Hilary consents to Jacqueline getting an affair by using Kiffer.

A survive quarter of a picture chronicles inside painful, graphic detail the previous xv years of Jacqueline's life, in the period of which she is diagnosed by having multiple sclerosis, & following loses control of her nervous models, becomes paralytic, goes indifferent & dull, & eventually dies as a scale of her previous beauty and glory. A film ceases by using Jacqueline's ghost standing on the beach in which she utilized to play when a baby, watching herself & her sister frolicking in the sand as little girls.

This motion-picture show was rated R per MPAA for language and gender in the America however occurs as 'Fifteen' certificate in the UK.