""About 10 minutes into the appointment, someone came down and asked me to fix the Wi-Fi. And I understood this to be a motif in this life," Rohen said in a Q&A following the film. "Sometimes [the piano tuner] is revered. He is the guy - the bridge between the music and the technical, the engineering. And sometimes they're like, 'Hey, can you fix the toilet?'""
"Niki the piano tuner has incredible ears that turn out to be a gift and a curse. He suffers from hyperacusis, a condition in which everyday sounds can lead to intense pain, but his precise hearing also unlocked a lucrative new side hustle. On one of the duo's jobs, Niki comes across a crew hired to open a safe by force in one of the homes."
"When Harry falls ill with a gigantic medical debt, Niki joins a gang of criminals as their locksmith. One of the prizes of his early jobs is a pearl-strapped wristwatch, which he gives as a gift to his new girlfriend, an accomplished pianist played by Havana Rose Liu. The gift comes back to haunt him in the film's third act."
Tuner follows veteran piano tuner Harry and his apprentice Niki as they move between affluent homes tuning instruments. Niki possesses hyperacusis and extraordinarily precise hearing that becomes both debilitating and profitable. During a job Niki overhears a crew breaking into a safe and uses his acoustic skills to deduce the lock combination. When Harry faces enormous medical debt, Niki becomes the gang's locksmith, stealing items including a pearl-strapped wristwatch he gives to his pianist girlfriend. The watch later returns as a pivotal plot element. The film emphasizes immersive sound design in the tradition of sound-focused thrillers.
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