[3] In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989,[4] collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she perceives sound.

[9] An album based on Glennie and Frith's performances in the film entitled The Sugar Factory was released in 2007.

The venue was an abandoned sugar factory in Dormagen, Germany, and their performance was filmed under the pretext of "making a record".

For the purpose of the documentary the musicians performed 100 feet (30 m) apart in the huge empty factory, which Frith said "was great visually, but limited in other ways".

[5][6] Glennie explains how a neurological disorder struck her as a child, and by the age of eight, soon after she had started to play the piano, she began to lose her hearing.

She collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith in an abandoned sugar factory in Dormagen, Germany, as they record a CD together.

[19] Page also complained about the amount of filler in the film, and that "most of the music [is not] very good", although he did like Glennie's final collaboration with Frith where, after the "usual 'free jazz' shtick", they "suddenly [...] find a point of agreement".

[19] But Page did feel that Glennie's achievements are "little short of miraculous, and that human victory is ultimately the best news one takes away from Touch the Sound.