"An intimate portrait of painter Henry Wuorila-Stenberg, in which he unpacks his relationship with art-making and the poisoning of the creative process."

The artist Henry Wuorila-Stenberg has always used his paintings to explore human faith, transience and death. Eventually, he finds himself in a situation where he is forced to question his own motives, as his art has driven him to a moral impasse. The identity of the artist has also brought with it money, power and ambition; things that cause pain. Can an artist pursue success and remain humble? Does money poison the act of making? What is left of the artist's identity if the art-making stops?

The film presents the viewer with an intimate, meditative sound recording, during which Henry dives deep into his own consciousness and confronts himself through dialogue. In this space, love is present, but so is the Prosecutor. 

"Everything I've done since childhood has involved painting. My desires, my world view, my aspirations - even those I have hidden from myself - have been present in it and have carried it forward. On the road to wholeness, painting has been a tragic, contradictory journey. It has enabled me to free myself from my separate self, just for a moment. It superficially unifies and becomes a compulsion, a judgment on a journey that leads deeper and deeper into unconscious worlds. Painting takes me close to contradictory forces and towards energies I cannot control. If painting joins with selfish ambitions - the lust for glory and power, greed and clinging desire or hatred - it can lead deep and produce brilliant paintings. But at the same time these activated forces destroy man." -H. W-S.