Using both found footage and her own material, Nina Fonoroff re-collects the memory of her father, a teacher. Constructing and deconstructing a portrait, she weaves family and friends' remembrances with an inquiry into her own work process. Her searching attitude suggests that with the loss of her father came a questioning of the role, not of a particular father, but the father figure-a refusal of authority, and an appreciation of her father's cycles of learning, teaching, learning. As Danny Kaye, playing Hans Christian Andersen, tells a group of children the story of a piece of chalk that saw itself as the source, not the transmitter of knowledge, one senses Fonoroff's sorrow at the loss inherent in the film image, and a yearning for the source of the image, not just its projection.