Lisinski is biographical film about the life and work of Vatroslav Lisinski (1819-1854), a Croatian composer who lived and composed during the turbulent times of the awakening of the Croatian national awareness. At first he wrote patriotic songs and in 1846 he composed the first Croatian opera Love and Malice. He was a man of poor health and it seems as if his body could not cope with the sensibility and the revolutionary spirit that boiled inside him as well as with the painful resistance and lack of understanding demonstrated by conservative and ultraconservative members of the city’s elite. He died young, at the age of 35. Just like many other great men, his extraordinary genius was recognized only after his death.