Jacob has decided to die. A car accident has left him paraplegic and in such pain that his life is unbearable. His father David faces the hardest of tests: witnessing the event. While Jacob travels to a place in the US where it will be possible for him to die, David spends the awful hours in New York, clinging to the hope of an inevitable question: will his son change his mind at the last minute? Nearly twenty years later, his sight failing but his spirit still alert, David reconstructs his life in New York, his days as a prolific painter, Jacob’s accident. The stupor of grief does not prevent him from paying infinite attention to beauty, and his story becomes a testament to life itself.