For 56 years a Jewish man has lived with his Romany-born but converted wife. The circumstances of their meeting, the miraculous fact that they not only survived but found a lasting love during one of the most horrific acts one section of humanity has ever perpetrated against another and their respective wishes both to forget and to remember all become revealed against a backdrop of a tattoo parlour and the education undergone by the initially unwilling shops.
The 'art' of the title is relatively secondary; it is the 'farewell' and its attendant remembrance that they, and we, must always do.