Synopsis August Rush

By : Findy Rahmadini, Hanis Destrini, and Katania Putri

This Movie tells about Music. Lyla Novacek is a cellist in an

orchestra . Louis is the lead singer of "The Connelly Brothers". Lyla and
Louis have a chance meeting after their respective concerts and sleep
together.After that, Lyla eventually realizes she is pregnant.
Eleven years later, Evan Taylor is living in a boys' orphanage
outside New York City. He meets Jefferies, a social worker. Soon, Evan runs
away to New York City, "following the music" in the hope it will lead him to
his family. He wanders the city until finding a boy named Arthur
performing in Park.
One day, Lyla is called to her father, and he admits that her child
survived the accident and is alive in New York but he doesn't know where.
Lyla abandons her father to his fate and decides to return to New York.
Meanwhile, evan follows Arthur to his home in a condemned theater and
is taken in by "Wizard". He is a vagrant musician who teaches homeless
children music and employs them as street performers. Wizard also gives
Evan the stage name "August Rush" and tries to market him to clubs and
event promoters. Seeing the posters that Jeffries has posted for the
runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan
and his gift for his own gain.
After evading the police via the subway, Evan takes refuge in an
inner-city church where Hope, a young girl at the church introduces him
to the piano and to written notes. He picks up this skill so quickly that.
Hope gets the attention of the parish pastor who enrolls August at the
Juilliard School.
Once in New York, Lyla goes to Jeffries' office for information, and
Jeffries identifies Evan as her son. She decides to stay in New York to
search for him. She also takes up the cello again and accepts an offer to
perform with the Philharmonic at a series of concerts in Central Park.
Meanwhile, Evan was selected to perform as couductor in the same
concert with Lyla. But, when evan to practice, Wizard coming and claiming
to be his father, pulls Evan out of the school, and putting him back in the
Park Square .
On the day of the outdoor concert. Evan meets Louis, and they play
together, neither knowing their blood relationship. Evan tells him of his
dilemma and Louis tells him that if he had a concert, he wouldn't miss it
for the world. August decides to leave Wizard and go to his concert, with
help from Arthur who also rebels against Wizard.
When Louis hanging out with his band, he saw Lyla's name on a
banner for the concert. He jumps out of the car and heads towards the
park. Meanwhile, August arrives in time to conduct his rhapsody. Lyla,
having finished her part of the concert, begins walking away from the park

but is attracted back towards Evan's performance. Louis also arrives and
spots Lyla, reuniting with her.
Evan finishes his rhapsody and smiles at Lyla and Louis, realizing
that they are his parents.