This film is a unique documentary/biography that highlights the roots, coming of age, and subsequent rise to fame of legendary jazz performer, Big Rude Jake. It is a film made in segments that highlight Jake's iconoclastic personal, social and political views as well as portray Jake as a thoughtful, intelligent man who's one true love, music, has always been the impetus and the ultimate idée fixe that he has propelled him above all others: the Pearl of Great Price.