Matthew Collings explores links between modern culture and Romanticism. An exploration of culture's dark and bleak side examines the connections between nineteenth-century French poetry and the more aggressive forms of contemporary rap. Collings travels to Harar in Ethiopia in search of the spirit of French poet Rimbaud, encountering a former life-prisoner who found redemption in the plays of Samuel Beckett, and ex-Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon.