The film that received the highest audience rating in the history of the San Sebastian Film Festival

Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe) is a successful conductor who is diagnosed with leukemia. Due to his treatment, he discovers he is adopted and that he has a brother, Jimmy (Pierre Lottin, an actor who nails these unsophisticated characters), also taken in by a family, but very different from his own. Separated at birth, the two men illustrate the extent to which class shapes a person's life. Because Thibaut also loves music, but he hasn't gone beyond playing on the village side.

With this material, those responsible for On top of everything (the Audience Award winner at the San Sebastian Film Festival, with the highest score in the festival's history) were able to resort to the strategies of the feel-good film, which focuses on easy solutions and imposes social reconciliation through emotions, not politics. While remaining in the emotional realm, the film portrays complex and believable characters, avoiding any sycophancy regarding the protagonists' respective struggles. On top of everything (in fanfare (in the original French version) offers a realistic portrait of the role of musical bands in the social and music-loving structure of so many towns, a reality that prevails here in the Valencian Country; at the same time, it reflects the workers' struggles in the north of France, a territory in the continuous process of dismantling its industrial fabric. Added to all this is the key use of music, from jazz to classical, although it is theEnter me by Charlez Aznavour, a hymn to light sung from the greyness of the north, the theme that elevates the film to its most moving moment.