The story of an artist who destroys one of his paintings. An art critic falls in love with the destroyed painting and creates an art movementout of the concept, calling it Destructionism. But the artist, Julian, finds himself not only destroying his art but himself. A lonely old woman that lives downstairs ifrom him is his only true friend . Julian's worldbecomes more and more claustrophobic with his girlfriend and the general art public, continually pushing him to create more of this self deprecating art form.