Using advanced [VID] Videotape postproduction techniques, this music theatre film, the first collaboration between Louis Andrissen and Peter Greenaway, is set in a sixteenth century anatomy theatre. With visual references to Hogart, Vesalius and Archimboldo, it explores the mysteries of the central letter of the alphabet - M - and the creation of Man, Music and Mozart. This incarnation of Man and Mozart is taken by dancer Ben Craft, with apocryphal texts by Vesalius, Schultz and Eisenstein sung by Jazz singer Astrid Seriese, to Andrissen's powerful Jazz/Funk music performed by the dutch ensemble De Volharding.