During the 1930s and 1940s, Rockwell Kent was one of America's most famous personalities, rivaling his contemporary Norman Rockwell in popularity. The foremost illustrator of his day, he created definitive drawings for literary classics such as "Moby Dick," "Candide" and "The Canterbury Tales." Kent was also a prolific oil painter whose work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. His haunting landscapes were inspired by his adventurous sojourns to Alaska, Tierra Del Fuego and Greenland. He was also a best-selling author and a social activist who won a landmark passport case against the federal government that allowed all United States citizens to travel, regardless of their political affiliations. The New Yorker once quipped, "That day will mark a precedent, which brings no news of Rockwell Kent." But political controversy made him unpopular, and as the years went by, he became more obscure. Filmmaker Frederick Lewis set out on an epic journey to discover the life and work of Kent.