The Beat Beneath My Feet

Tom is a teenage loner with dreams of becoming a rock star, but he is thwarted by his God-fearing single mother, Mary. Tom's life takes a dramatic turn when an intimidating stranger moves into the apartment below and plays loud rock music throughout the night. Tom recognizes his new neighbor as Max Stone, a disgraced American guitarist who disappeared years earlier owing to a fortune in unpaid tax and who has since been presumed dead. Tom agrees not to reveal Max to the authorities on the condition that he teaches him the dark arts of rock guitar.