Benedito Senna is blind He moved from the Brazilian city of Belém to France where he fell in love with and married Jean Luc who is somewhat his eyes and a devoted reader of his poems In Paris he meets another Benedito film director and also Brazilian and gay A friendship starts they exchange videos and voicemails The shared name and the passion for images bring them back together years later to make a movie As they set out to shoot though they realize things were no longer the same and differences arise