A visually arresting exploration of the fate of music after China’s Cultural Revolution, during which all Western music and even Chinese traditional music was branded “bourgeois” and counter-revolutionary A new generation was eager to learn once music academies were opened again, and we see how a rich new world, so long suppressed, inspired five composers. More than a musicological treatise, this film is also a beautiful impressionistic study of the ancient and contemporary sounds and images which have informed their imaginations, made them receptive to Western music and placed them at the forefront of making Chinese music accessible to Western ears.