A documentary tracing the life of conceptual artist Li Yuan-chia — from wartime China to Taiwan, postwar Milan and Bologna, Swinging Sixties London, and eventually to rural Cumbria where he settled.

It was there, in 1971, that Li Yuan-chia restored a derelict farmhouse on Hadrian's Wall and opened the L.Y.C. Museum & Gallery. Over the following years it became an internationally recognised creative hub, exhibiting over 300 artists including Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash and Bill Woodrow.

Drawing on Li's diaries, personal recordings and the memories of those who knew him, the film explores how a singular vision, in an unlikely place, shaped a local arts community for generations.