Jens Søndergaard - portræt af en maler

The Danish painter Jens Søndergaard was born in October 1895, and exhibitions and book publication have marked the centenary of his birth. But the most important thing to Jørgen Vestergaard, the director of the film, who has grown up in the same landscape as the painter, has been by means of the film to examine Jens Søndergaard's pictureque universe: What was his vision - what was his aim - and when was his painting successful?