Against the backdrop of Trinidad and Tobago's annual steel band competition, Panorama - in which thousands of musicians in huge ensembles of over 100 players desperately compete in performing elaborate music - several musicians chase their dreams. Their stories are interlaced with re-enactments of the rags-to-riches tale of the steel band movement, which was born into poverty and violence but climbed to the highest levels of social and artistic acceptance. This film is the story of men and women who staked all on their art, and of French, Japanese and Americans, whose passion and daring has drawn them to the world championships. It is a global human adventure out of the ordinary.