In July 1890, Vincent van Goth went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his own life ... and then walk a mile to a doctor's house for help? Who was the crooked little "color man" Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France? And why had the painter recently become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue?
These are just a few of the questions confronting Vincent's friends - baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautree - who vow to discover the truth about van Goth's untimely death. Their quest will lead them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of the late nineteenth-century Paris.
