British director Terence Davies shares deeply personal musings on his relationship with Liverpool, the city where he was born and where he spent his first 28 years. Composed largely of atmospheric archive footage, and featuring Davies’s narration, it’s a celebration and a eulogy for an iconic city.

A witty meditation on time, place, memory, and mortality, Terence Davies’ profound and deeply moving nonfiction feature exhilaratingly combines the personal with the archival, using a deep well of music, film, literary sources, and radio clips to build unique connections in recollections.