Mike half Swiss half American is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes Hes a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years making him also Portuguese His stage name is Michael Biberstein His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friends house The result is this movie an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence its mystery and magic were filmed