Jan Troell and Georg Oddner are both famous image makers, and also old friends. In this documentary, Troell uses memories and photographs to capture Oddner over 50years, from childhood summers spent in Estonia and Russia to his young manhood as a jazz drummer in New York City. It was there he started his career as a fashion photographer by apprenticing in the studio of the legendary Richard Avedon. Oddner perceived rhythm as a bridge between jazz and photography, a source of vitality for both melody and image. Troell presents a life filled with fascination for human faces and the desire to portray a specific language through which objects speak, and to capture that moment which simultaneously radiates signs of life and eternity. This is a portrait of a charismatic and popular Swedish photographer with the soul of a musician, a man who is both an incredible story teller and an attentive and perceptive listener and observer.