Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.
It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the violin.
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.
Bogota, Colombia. A house built just after WWII lies nested in the mountains on one of the highest capitals in the world. A striking observant mirror in the main bedroom hides an engineering masterpiece: a small room disconnected from the world. The house was just rented by young cosmopolitan Spanish couple Adrian & Belen. Her suspicions of infidelity will drive her to test his love for her. A small decision that will inadvertently unlock a voyage into the deepest meaning of possession and the mechanisms of jealousy. A universal story based on the transformation of human relationships into destructive forces. The “Hidden Face” serves as a metaphor for the imprisonment and isolation caused by fatal jealousy and sick love…