Ada her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for a lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper into a complex emotional sexual bond remarkable for its nave passion and frightening disregard for limits... Winner of 3 Oscars for Best Screenplay (Jane Campion) Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Suporting Actress (Anna Paquin) and 11 awards from the Australian Film Institiute.