Frank Lloyd Wright spent the 1920s trying to build a body of work in a city that never quite fit his sensibility, and this KCET production traces what came of it. The film centers on Hollyhock House, the concrete Hollywood residence Wright designed for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, and moves through the textile block houses he built nearby, including the Ennis House and the Storer House, structures assembled from patterned concrete blocks meant to root the architecture in the Southern California landscape. Architectural historians and preservationists walk through the interiors and grounds, explaining Wright's fraught relationship with Los Angeles, a place he found culturally thin even as it gave him some of his most experimental commissions. Archival photographs and drawings sit alongside present-day footage of the houses, many restored after decades of neglect and earthquake damage. The film treats the city itself as a character, asking why an architect so identified with the Midwest and the desert Southwest left this particular, uneven mark on the West Coast.