Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's own novel "The Piano Teacher", the film is a stunning look at how a middle-aged woman, a piano professor at the Vienna Music Conservatory, is gradually being self-destructed. Erika Kohut, who had a weird love-hate relationship with her mother, was torn by her emotions to music and her dark desires. She often visited the peep show and a porn cinema in the low-class district of Vienna, and voyeured couples' random mating at night in the park. One day, after one of her students expressed his feeling during the private class, her inhibited desires explode...