Filmmaker Ty Kim provides a deep look into the life of Earl Kim in this new documentary.

Earl Kim was a Korean-American composer who received considerable recognition as a composer, including commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation, the University of Chicago, and Boston University and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was also active as a pianist (including lieder recitals with Bethany Beardslee, Benita Valente, and Dawn Upshaw), vocal coach, and conductor, and was a co-founder and past president of Musicians Against Nuclear Arms. Kim is especially well-known for his work in the idiom of music theater, specifically on texts by Samuel Beckett. Representative works include Exercises en Route, Narratives, Eh Joe and the one-act opera Footfalls. Kim died of lung cancer at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 78.