Tuning Heartstrings

Brilliant but controlled cardiothoracic surgeon TREVOR HAWTHORNE is on the rise — until tragedy strikes. After canceling plans with his young niece and nephew for an urgent surgery, Trevor loses his nephew CHARLIE on his operating table following a bike accident. Wracked with guilt and haunted by past trauma, Trevor steps away from surgery, his confidence shattered.
Drowning his sorrows at a bar, Trevor meets INDIE RUINS, the magnetic frontwoman of the rising rock band ‘The Ruins.’ Their instant chemistry leads to dinner at Indie’s place, but when Indie collapses, Trevor discovers she has a heart condition known as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. She refuses surgery, determined to go on tour with her band despite the risks. As a last-ditch effort, she invites Trevor to join the tour as her private doctor. He declines — until a late-night text changes his mind.
On tour, Trevor learns Indie is keeping her condition a secret from even her bandmates, forcing him into a delicate balancing act of treating her worsening symptoms in secrecy. To explain his presence, they pretend to date, blurring the lines between personal and professional as their feelings deepen. When Indie collapses mid-concert, Trevor revives her backstage, realizing just how reckless and dangerous the situation has become. But Indie refuses to stop, afraid the scar that results from surgery will end her career like it did her mother’s.
Tensions peak when Indie’s bandmates stage an intervention, blaming Trevor for her decline. Unwilling to reveal the truth, Indie lets them kick him off the tour. Heartbroken but with renewed determination, Trevor returns to surgery to reclaim his purpose. He reconnects with his grieving sister and young niece, stepping up for the family he still has. In the OR, he carries a picture of Charlie in his pocket.
Indie turns up at Trevor’s hospital — having come clean to her bandmates. She’s still terrified of surgery, but she’s ready to face it. Trevor steps back as her doctor, choosing instead to take on a supportive, healthier role and stand by her side as the man who loves her. As his former rival operates on Indie’s heart, Trevor watches, knowing the outcome is out of his hands.
Standing at a grave, Trevor speaks — not as a surgeon weighed down by failure, but as a man who’s learning to let go. The grave is revealed to belong to Charlie. Indie joins him, placing a bouquet on the headstone, her surgical scar visible above her dress. At a benefit concert in Charlie’s honor, Trevor watches from the wings with his niece as Indie takes the stage, stronger than ever. As she sings, Trevor isn’t just a spectator — he’s present, he’s healing, and for the first time in a long time, he believes in moving forward. Later, in a tattoo shop, with Trevor by her side, Indie transforms her surgical scar into art — a testament to what she and Trevor discovered together: resilience, love, and healing.