This documentary focuses on the career of Henri Cartier-Bresson, a frustrated painter who became a world-renowned photographer. As he reviews his portfolio of iconic images and notable figures, the notoriously press-shy Cartier-Bresson offers insights into his legendary career, which covered everything from Gandhi’s funeral to the fall of China. Interviews with historians and colleagues explore the powerful impact of his globetrotting work. As Cartier-Bresson died shortly after Heinz Bütler’s HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE IMPASSIONED EYE (2003, 72 min) was completed, it stands as a rare record of the thoughts and mannerisms of a man who lived through the camera but preferred to avoid its all-seeing eye.