A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed
interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks
from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense
of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal
reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues and
patients, and archival material from every point in his life, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and writer
who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.