Brad succumbs to the white plague; Oscar, too, spends his days fighting
disease, confined to a hospital. Playing the organ at night for a
mysterious sickly girl, he discovers his own talent, although years
after recovery, he finds himself desperate, poor and depressed - until
the devil, otherwise known to the world as impresario Norman G, happens
on him in a moment of crisis.
Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Mauricio
Segura's Oscar evokes periods across time, from the Depression-era
Montreal neighbourhood of Little Burgundy to the swinging cabarets of
the 1950s, while offering a reflection on the bonds between an artist
and the Caribbean diaspora from which he comes. But above all, Oscar
is a poignant homage to a musical giant, a man who changed the face of
jazz forever.