At the same time that the photographer and painter, Chuck Close, was painting his self portrait on a very large canvas for 82 days, The director was painting his cinematic portrait. He prepares a large Polaroid photograph of his face, which he divides to many small squares, and gradually he fills in the canvas with them. Contrary to other portraits, this time he has chosen lively colors, maybe in an attempt to color his image; an image known for the suffering associated with spending many years in a wheel chair after having a stroke, and the difficulty of moving the very hand that paints.

Along with the painting that started to take shape and meaning, the director brought the artist''s friends and contemporaries, and created a portrait of the circle of artists in New York of the 70s and 80s.