A reading of seven dreams interleaved with filmed audience reactions and "Fire" by the Pointer Sisters, "A Message to Rudy" by The Specials,"Take It To the Limit" by the Eagles and more. The dreams deals with the past, present aswell as the future.
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.
