George Maciunas, the leader of the revolutionary (if ill-fated) Fluxus art movement in New York, has just died. His widow Billie and rainbow artist Kbuji sit surrounded by boxes full of anti-art, essays, and gags that didn’t sell, at a fire keeping warm. George, whom she married in the final year of his life, was mostly a mystery to her. With the help of his collaborators, she pieces together the radical artistic life of George Maciunas – from the many headline-grabbing performances, FluxBoxes, and real estate schemes to infighting with every other artist in the avant-garde.

They relive George’s odyssey from festivals in Europe, inventing Soho, building the FluxHouse artists colony, to his fights with ‘topless trumpeter” Clara Stokes, and a deadly mafiosi electrician, while the very collectors he dreamed of destroying are closing in on stealing his art from her.