Opp ned er alt abstrakt, sa pappa

He didn't want to sign. The composition has to be good whichever way you look at it. Of course, the admiring young daughter agrees. But this is the past. The young girl has become an older woman, incapable of just getting on with her own life. She has an inheritance to take care of all her fathers abstract pictures. Is it at all possible to sell pictures without a signature? By a painter who refused to exhibit his work his whole life through? What on earth made him produce without an audience? Without communication? The daughter looks for answers in the past. Life was not a dance on roses. There had been a sense of shame too. (Norsk Filminstitutt)