A fictionalized biography of the famous artist David Hockney - touching, careful, accurate and approved by himself. Portraits after landscapes. Spring after winter. Hand drawings after drawings on devices. Oil after watercolor. Color after the blackness of coal. California after England. Joy after tragedy. Sunrise after a dark night. Creation after emptiness. He loved the sun and beautiful people and could not stand the prejudices accepted in his homeland. In Bradford his flamboyant style was considered not "modern" enough. When he got the chance, he moved, with no money at all, to New York and then to California, where he painted a painting of a swimming pool that sold for ninety million dollars. People close to him died from accidents, from old age, from cancer, from AIDS. The force that moved him forward, but at the same time forced him to go in a spiral, was love. And art.