Can classical music change lives? In Soul Music, novelist of African descent, Candace music from Blues, Miles Davis as friend of the family, hiphop, musical to classical in her own life to places where different cultures meet. Her personal journey takes her to the streets of London and Scotland, Venezuela, where the Sistema scheme has offered thousands of young people a route out of the ghetto mentality through virtuoso musical training, bringing global fame to the charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel; to the Middle East, and Daniel Barenboim's East-West Divan Orchestra in which young Israelis and Palestians play side, and a pioneering opera project in Kinsasha.