A group of artists sets up easels inside a nursing home and paints portraits of the residents living there, and the film follows both the sessions and the conversations that happen around them. Director Jeffrey Vincent Parise and cinematographer Miles Gutkin let the seniors talk while they sit for their portraits, and the advice they offer, about aging, regret, and what actually matters, becomes the film's real subject rather than the paintings themselves. The title comes from the residents' own reactions to seeing themselves rendered on canvas, sometimes with surprise, sometimes with recognition. Original music from Danny Klein and Mitchel Kulkin plays under the interviews. There is no narrator steering the material; the portraits and the sitters' voices carry the short film on their own, with the act of being painted working as a way to get people talking who might otherwise not be asked.