Many know Paul Bowles as an acclaimed author of stories and novels, including The Sheltering Sky. What is less well-known is that before becoming a writer, Bowles had a flourishing career—as a composer. In this soaring, imaginative film, Owsley Brown reveals Bowles’s musical incarnation, both through interviews with the aged, but impish, acerbic, and marvelously urbane author, and through ravishing montages set to Bowles’s compositions from the ‘30’s and ‘40’s. A purely pleasurable feast of music, literature, gorgeous cinematography, and a big personality—Paul Bowles himself.