The film takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, but the frame of reference steadily broadens. Adjacent realities of 1965 are juxtaposed —the New York World’s Fair, the Watts riots filtering through from the East Coast on television. A cast of thousands summoned up —each separate sphere, each face and place given equal weight, each instant a centre. A journey to the hidden core of that world both gone and palpably present.