A number of Austrian painters of the 20th century did not pay tribute to the existing zeitgeist in abstraction, but portrayed it realistically. Despite a lack of recognition, they managed to leave behind a considerable body of work that is gaining in appreciation today and some of their pictures have increased 1000fold in value.
 
This documentary film covers motifs and styles of painting from 1900 to the present, focusing on the controversy between representational and abstract painting in Austria.
 
What is remarkable is that a great number of artists are powered by irrational ideologies, as if they wanted to prove that their art leads to salvation and is nothing less than a better kind of religion.