James Nachtwey, one of the world's most famous war photographers, can be found whereever a war or poverty are raging. Where people suffer and die by violence, in Kosovo and Palestine, Ruanda and Afghanistan, with the beggars of Jakarta or in the ruins of the worlds trade center, he is there searching for the best picture. The picture that once published might end the war... The film presents Nachtwey's work, his pictures and the media business. And it presents a sensible, thoughtful man who loves his job and suffers from it.