Loosely based on historical events — very loosely.
On a spring day in 1839, scenic artist Louis Daguerre — whose daguerreotype would usher in the new world of photography — and American telegraph inventor Samuel Morse meet for the first time at Daguerre’s studio in Paris.
While demonstrating their inventions to one another, they notice a silhouetted figure in one of Daguerre’s pictures and devise an outlandish scheme to identify the individual – the first human ever depicted in a photographic image.
