“Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” tells the story of a deaf boy growing up with a passion for Beethoven’s famous sonata, written the same year the composer was diagnosed with deafness.

Directed by Peabody Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee Irene Taylor Brodsky, the memoir-based doc also centers on the boy’s relationship to his grandfather, also deaf, and explores “what we discover when we push beyond loss,” according to a press release.

“If deafness is a mutation, then maybe our mistakes become our music,” the filmmaker muses in the trailer.

“I decided to turn the camera on my family once again when my deaf son — who started playing piano at the age of five — told me he wanted to learn the ‘Moonlight Sonata,’ which Beethoven composed as he was going deaf,” Brodsky shared, per the press release. “When my aging father started grappling with his own loss, I witnessed three lives over three centuries all converging to find their own voice. My film is an ode to both sound and to silence, and what we have all gained not in spite of the deaf experience, but because of it.”

Brodsky received an Oscar nod and two Emmy nominations for her documentary short “The Final Inch.” She won an Emmy for “Beware the Slenderman.” She previously explored the deaf experience in her feature documentary “Hear and Now” and short docs “Between Sound and Silence” and “The Listening Project.”

“Moonlight Sonata” premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Abramorama will release the critically acclaimed doc in NY on September 13 and in LA on September 20. It will be broadcast on HBO in December.