Director Nelly Ben HayounStépanian finds an unlikely companion in the late political theorist Hannah Arendt as she embarks on a world tour across sixteen cities—looking for the origins, mechanics and power dynamics behind knowledge.
The film investigates the act of thinking in the twentyfirst century, as well as fears associated with it. It features a long list of some of the most interesting minds of our times: political activist Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Arendt’s students: Arjun Appadurai, Leon Botstein and Richard Bernstein, Japanese Living National Treasures: Bunraku puppeteer Kanjuro Kiritake II, Kimono master Takayuki Takahashi, former Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid, and many more.

Director: Ben HayounStépanian