The work is centered around Marshall Allen, renowned free and avant-garde jazz musician and current leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, of which he has been a continual member since 1958. For this film, Meyers composed two original scores for Allen to interpret, inviting him to engage, through music, in an intimate conversation about the spontaneity of music-making, the rigour of rehearsals, and the potentiality of collaboration. The camera portrays Allen privately practicing a seemingly nostalgic melody in his Philadelphia residence, the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra, which has been at once the band’s home, its rehearsal hall, and the frontier of musical exploration, for over five decades. Telling a musical and visual story of transformation from the earthly to the otherworldly, the work transcends temporalities and places and pays homage both to Allen’s century-long life lived through music and to Sun Ra’s revolutionary musical vision and political utopia, which discerned in the unknown of sonic experimentation and the vastness of the universe the possibility of a transformed present and a radically different future.