This film tells the romance and career of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt, and focuses on the creative process of his masterpiece Night Patrol. Rembrandt has always been an upper-class portrait painter, he has a succession of orders, happy and sweet love. It was not until his wife gave birth to his youngest son in 1642 that his life began to take a big turn. Rembrandt suffered one of the biggest setbacks in his career when his employer took the Night Patrol, a collective portrait of the Archer Guild painter in Amsterdam, to court. After that, his career began to decline and he began to get into debt. The vicissitudes of life and human feelings are cold and warm.