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Ancestral echoes of the Middle Passage reverberate through the upright bass handed down through three generations of the Montgomery family. Each generation deals with conflicts between dreams deferred, and the unfinished business of the past. Grandmom Mozelle was a pioneer in an all women’s band in the 1940’s, but she gave up her musical passion to raise her family in a segregated America. Her son Casey became a revolutionary of the 60’s and 70’s and used music to voice the ideals of the Black Power Movement. He fled to Europe to avoid unjust prosecution for a crime he did not commit. Upon his passing his daughter Zera finds herself ill at ease in London, struggling with her own issues of family, career and music, but also being pulled by something else. Where does this music come from?  Whose cries do we hear across time and space? Do we dare to listen?

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