The legendary Japanese masters Winter Sleep take you into the hardboiled world of artwhere excons are philosophers young lovers are combustible and aesthetics is life An artists quest for growth from one of the worlds greatest stylistsNakagi an excon painter who has sequestered himself in a mountain cabin is trying to elevate his art The only thing breaking his solitude are the visits of two women an art dealer who wants him to produce the sort of paintings that she would like to buy from him and a young aspiring and soulful apprentice When Nakagi welcomes an escaped felon into the emotionally fraught fold and begins to teach him to pain well Winter Sleep awakens to a literally incendiary climax