The musical is based on an actual month-long journey toAntarctica that the artist and several others made earlier this year. On February9th, 2005, Jay Chung, Francesca Grassi, Pierre Huyghe, Q Takeki Maeda, AleksandraMir, Xavier Veilhan, Maryse Alberti, and ten crewmembers set sail from the Port ofUshuaia in Tierra del Fuego, the southeast point of Argentina. The journey centeredon a search for an unknown island and an encounter with a unique solitarycreature—an albino penguin.