War-torn China: from the front lines to the inner sanctums, she was there. The year is 1937. Reporting from guerrilla headquarters, journalist Agnes Smedley is granted an interview with the Red Army’s charismatic leader in exchange for teaching folkclances to the troops. As General Chu Teh recalls the hardships of his peasant past, Agnes is flooded with memories of her own - and finds with Chu a kinship of the heart and mind she’d traveled the globe to discover. Drawing on Eastern and Western traditions in music and theatre, the stories of Agnes and Chu unfold in intertwining vignettes that weave in and out of time.