Innovative and outspokenly gay, Bob Smith was a performer and head writer for Comedy Central's Out There, the first special to feature gay and lesbian comedians. After winning acclaim as one-third of a New York comedy team called Funny Gay Males, Smith appeared on The Joan Rivers Show and Comedy Central's For Comics Only. In addition to headlining at comedy clubs nationwide, Smith worked on a book, Growing Up Gay, as well as a screenplay based on Paul Monette's book about a gay stand-up comic, Halfway Home.

Combining a concert film with a making-of documentary, this presentation provides a dramatization of Franz Schubert's famed song cycle along with a unique look at the collaborative process in bringing the production to the screen. Tenor Ian Bostridge vocalizes the part of the wanderer from Wilhelm Müller's poems (on which the cycle is based), with Julius Drake accompanying him on piano and David Alden directing.