The leading characters in this symbolic film are a young man with special abilities and his restorer father. The central motif is an emblematic work, The Ambassadors, painted by the Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger, of which the restorer is commissioned by his friend to produce a perfect replica. The masterpiece slowly reveals its hidden messages as we learn that reproducing an artwork of such painterly ability but also a journey of discovery that sheds a bright light on his life to date and presents us with a terryfing question.