Dutch director Jan Bosdriesz traces the life of graphic artist M.C. Escher, borrowing the title from one of Escher's own prints, in which the word "metamorphose" dissolves into a chain of interlocking animals and abstract shapes. The film moves through Escher's development from early Italian landscape sketches to the impossible staircases, tessellated reptiles, and recursive perspectives that made him famous, using archival photographs, his notebooks, and footage of the actual prints to show how the technique evolved print by print. Interviews and narration place the work against Escher's own account of his process, an obsessive, almost mathematical approach to drawing that had little to do with the art movements of his time and much to do with symmetry, infinity, and optical logic. The documentary treats Escher less as a Surrealist curiosity than as a craftsman solving visual puzzles, and it lingers on the mechanics of specific prints long enough to show exactly how the illusions are built.