Investigating the apparent suicide of artist Vincent van Gogh, his friends Lucien Lessard and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec embark on a surreal odyssey deep into the art world of late 19th-century Paris. Why did van Gogh walk a mile to a doctor'shouse for help? Who was the crooked little "color man" he claimed was stalking him? And why had he become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue?