Before he was the Phantom of the Opera, he was a little boy desperate to win his mother's affection. Sold into bondage at an early age, they could break his body but never break his spirit. Before he took up residence in the cellar of the Opera House, he embarked on a journey spanning more than twenty years and two continents, making more enemies than friends along the way. A fresh take on Gaston Leroux's classic, The Phantom of the Opera.