Richard Riddell

When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life. (imdb)

After just completing Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha, the film follows Philip Glass composing his third opera, Akhnaten, which was being commissioned by the Stuttgart Opera and the Houston Grand Opera simultaneously. Filmed in Germany, The United States, Egypt and India, the film offers a behind-the-scenes look into the inspiration, development, and production of an opera of this magnitude. (imdb)