In 1979, award-winning German filmmaker Wim Wenders (THE AMERICAN FRIEND, WINGS OF DESIRE) traveled to New York City to make a movie with legendary American auteur Nicholas Ray as he lay dying of terminal cancer.Surrounded by family and friends, the director of such Hollywood classics as REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, JOHNNY GUITAR and THEY LIVE BY NIGHT reflects on a career of triumphs and compromises as he faces his final days with hope, humor and the fierce independent spirit that defined his greatest works.Together, Ray and Wenders create a film that is more than a documentary, telling an extraordinarily moving story about collaboration that goes beyond friendship, and ultimately, a life in cinema that transcends death itself.