Johann Strauss, Jr., constantly trying to outdo himself, meets Nicholas, an abused stable boy. Together their collaborations surprise the music world.

During World War I, families are fleeing war-torn Paris. The Boudreau sisters, Martine and Eliane, whose photographer father is at the Front, decide to aid in the war effort by catching spies. A woman's strange finger-tapping and suspicious comings and goings make her a prime suspect. The woman is in fact Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, Curie is helping to save lives with her research, although she must fight narrow-minded attitudes to...

A young girl helps her friend and teacher, the great artist Francisco de Goya, thwart the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition.

A visit to Paris gives a self-centered teenager a lesson in art, life and love, as she interacts with her aunt, Mary Cassatt.