Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

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Wim Wenders

Self

Nicholas Ray

Self

Tom Farrell

Self

Ronee Blakley

Self

Gerry Bamman

Self

Stefan Czapsky

Self

Edward Lachman

Self

Chris Sievernich

Self

Jim Jarmusch

Self (uncredited)