A documentary opera featuring the contradictory life of progressive composer and prominent communist Jan Kapr (1914-1988), a Stalin Prize laureate, and later banned in socialist Czechoslovakia. The opera songs reflect Kapr’s key life junctures, those establishing an artist’s fate. The nature of memory and narration are explored using Kapr’s personal, never-before-seen amateur films manifesting his humor, inner struggles and desire to leave traces for eternity.