In the wake of schizophrenic mania, an illustrious and famous young painter returns home from a secret hiatus in a mental hospital. With sanity in reach, he yearns for solace, but to escape the gravity of his dark past means to hide from his own shadow and it still looms all around. Through debauchery and smoke and mirrors he artfully eludes shady business relations and traumatic triggers that claw after him in his quest to one day paint again.