Author, educator, and artist, Daniel Quinn is best known for his novel, Ishmael, winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek 'creative and positive solutions to global problems.' Since 1992, over 1.5 million copies of Ishmael have been printed in more than 25 languages. In this chilling yet hopeful film, Daniel Quinn discusses the overarching ideas of Ishmael and his body of work.