Christian Blackwood spent 1967 and 1968 following Thelonious Monk with a camera, capturing rehearsals, a European tour, and long stretches of Monk simply existing offstage, pacing hotel rooms, spinning in place, saying almost nothing. Director Charlotte Zwerin built this film around that footage decades later, adding interviews with Monk's son T.S. Monk, his sister-in-law Nellie, and saxophonist Charlie Rouse, who spent years in his working quartet. The film does not try to explain Monk's music so much as let his behavior sit next to it unexplained, the odd tempos and clustered chords playing against a man who could go silent for days or wander offstage mid-performance. Club dates, a Town Hall concert, and airport waiting rooms all get equal weight, building a portrait through accumulation rather than narration. Monk's mental health struggles are present but never diagnosed or sensationalized. What remains is a working jazz genius filmed at close range by someone who had no interest in tidying him up for the camera.