Based on the award-winning biography by Christopher Maurer ("Fortunes Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson") and on interviews with art critics and with the artists family, this moving and visually stunning documentary captures the drama of Walter Andersons life, devoted to the realization of nature through art. Few artists have lived as dramatic, independent, and passionate a life as he did, on the edge of society, a voluntary exile from the sordid thing most people call reality. Pursuing the definite knowledge of nature, Anderson traveled thousands of miles, criss-crossing the South on foot and on his bicycle. Twice he paddled down the Mississippi River in a canoe. In 1949 he trekked across war-torn China, and many times a year, during the last fifteen years of his life, he rowed a tiny plywood skiff ten or twelve miles across the Mississippi Sound to a barrier island in the gulf, a wilderness where he fled the dominant mode on shore and drew and painted his vision of paradise. Riley and Wolf explore the story and its legacy in watercolors, ceramics, woodcarvings, prints and writing.