Together with Danish documentary film veteran Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier takes on the task of challenging conventional ways of documentary and film production. Both directors share a fascination of getting into the bone of filmmaking. Down to basic elements, simplicity of image and sound. In 1967 Jørgen Leth made a 12 min. short film called "The Perfect Human", a document on human behaviour containing the familiar Leth themes - a film which Trier admires greatly and claims to have seen more than 20 times.. In the year 2000, Trier challenged Leth to make five remakes of this film, but each time Trier will put forward obstructions, constraining Leth to re-think the story and the characters of the original film from 1967.