The Cello masterclass offers six young competition winners artistic and professional coaching sessions. In the new auditorium designed by Frank Gehry at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, each session results in a master class open to the public. The eager young musicians vibrate their cello strings under the gaze of a prestigious artist, Gautier Capuçon, while audience members and music lovers share the intimacy of a class in which each young artist has the same burning ambition: to transcend their limits. The collective and individual aspiration is for excellence, to reach the state of supreme grace that elevates music in order, as Baudelaire put it, to «excavate Heaven». The film portrays this pursuit of excellence and the work of Gautier Capuçon, who passes on his artistic experience in a Classe d’Excellence driven by his charisma, generosity and joy. A truly unique human and artistic adventure.