Quiet, withdrawn, intense Elias Springs lives in a world populated with drum beats and staccato rhythms. His bandmates will tell anyone who asks that music is Eli's life, and Eli's life is music. Normally, Eli would heartily agree, that is, until he gets trapped in a broken down elevator with a lovely, charming, deaf woman. Now he is torn between his stable world measured in four-four time and life with a woman who can never hear even one note he plays. Can Eli find a way to share his passion with a woman who lives in a world of silence? Cooking is Simone Joffe's passion, but her small catering company is struggling in today's economy. Born profoundly deaf, her independence is everything to her, and without her business she has no way to support herself. On the way to drum up new work she ends up stuck in an elevator, caught between two floors with a stranger. When he goes above and beyond to make a connection with her, she feels her world shift. Will Simone be able to find her way past her fear of failure to embrace the man who makes her heart beat triple-time?