For many years no one was interested in the art of the Impressionists Artists like Monet Degas and Renoir were vilified attacked and left penniless as a result Then a new breed of collectors emerged and before long they were battling to acquire any work by these new radical artists that they could find Among them was the visionary Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen

Without Camille Pissarro there is no Impressionist movement He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism It was a dramatic path that Pissarro followed and throughout it all he wrote extensively to his family It is through these intimate and revealing letters that this gripping film reveals Pissarros life and work