Following an emotional crisis, the painter Vincent van Gogh spent a year in a monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence dedicated to the care of the mentally ill. During this year he painted many of his most famous paintings. The monastery is still there and it is still a psychiatric hospital, today receiving exclusively female patients. They are offered a range of artistic therapies, and many of them spend their days like Vincent – painting.
In the year he spent in Saint-Rémy, Vincent wrote many letters to his brother Theo and his sister Wil. In this film, the current patients reply to his letters. They write about their experience of the place, about what they share with Vincent, and about how they find consolation in their paintings and in nature.