It follows a jaded reality TV host (Josh Duhamel)
whose latest project is a desperate ratings grab by his producer (Famke Janssen), depicting actual suicides for
shock value and ostensibly to raise money for victims» families.
Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics
whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European
values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with
shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.