1950’li yıllarda, Orta Batılı bir aileyi merkezine alan film ailenin en büyük oğlu Jack’in, çocukluk masumiyetinin kaybolmasından başlayarak buruk bir yetişkinlik evresine geçişini konu alıyor. Tam bu geçiş sürecinde de babası (Brad Pitt) ile yaşadığı çalkantılı baba-oğul ilişkisi, öykünün merkezine oturuyor. Jack’in olgunluk hali (Sean Penn) artık modern çağda yolunu yitirmiş bir bireydir. Kaderin varlığını ve çıkmazlarını sorgularken, diğer yandan yaşamın anlamını bulmaya çalışır...
Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives with his soulful, hypnotic gaze and theatrical performance of popular tunes and East Indian compositions on the newly developed Hammond B3 organ. In the ’90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tiki/lounge music aficionados and ended up immortalized in the film Ed Wood. Often pegged as a “man of mystery,” Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998—one that is finally revealed in KORLA.
A gifted young organist struggles to endure the violent world around him.
A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.