The night of the 1st of January 1599, while in bed with a whore, Michelangelo Merisi, a painter and a furious man known as Caravaggio, dreamed that he was visited by God. His memory and ghosts lead him to an old tavern. Caravaggio, a man of many disputes, is gambling. He is in control of the game and is dominating the other gamblers when the visitor comes to find him. He eats and drinks with the same passion that he does everything in life. Unwillingly, he follows the Visitor into the street. On a square, while Caravaggio frees himself from the excesses of his past, the Visitor commissions him his most famous painting..