In the first of Nilsson's 9 @ Night series, Ben Malafide gets out of prison after twenty years and arrives in San Francisco by ferryboat. The Information Age assails him like a hive of angry bees. Noises, images, illusory hopes and unkept promises. Time itself seems to run forward and backward as Ben looks for the basics… a meal, a kind word, a bed for the night. Information does not equal knowledge and being hooked up does not insure communication. Street raw meets digital glitz and Ben is transported… and then thwarted. But in the midst of chaos a mysterious angel presents Ben with an unlikely source of clarity, an unequivocal gesture in a kaleidoscopic world.