Do the lessons of the past save or damn us? When celebrity painter Emery Lake loses his wife and muse of twenty years, he slowly gives up on life. Then his grown daughter drags him to the south of France where his impressionist heroes once walked and painted. Renoir, Picasso, C zanne, and Van Gogh all spent time here, painting the rocks, the olive trees, the women... It's a last ditch effort to make Emery care about something. But...