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本片改编自同名漫画，背景设定在提倡支持艺术家移居的海边城市，讲述了悠哉生活的14岁美术社员奏介和他的伙伴们，在奇怪的“艺术家”们来来常常的海边街道上，一边做着自己喜欢的东西，一边用无限的想象力让世界变得愉快。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

 影片以重复加碎片式的感官叙事手法，讲述了年迈且身患疾病的安东尼（安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）正在面临一项艰难的人生选择——是搬到养老院还是接受女儿寻找的新护工。在这个过程中，安东尼发现自己仿佛进入了一场奇怪的时空之旅，错乱的记忆和时间线交织出一段段匪夷所思的故事，而一个个陌生又熟悉的人也让他陷入迷茫。影片根据法国小说家兼剧作家佛罗莱恩·泽勒的舞台剧《父亲》改编。