Opening Night: A Story of Art and Friendship

As two women, both artists living and working along the coast of Ireland, come to know each other, we witness a profound meditation on friendship, mortality, creation, the everyday and the sublime.

One day, Sara Baume attended the closing party of an exhibition in West Cork. She fell under the spell of two small paintings.

Mollie Douthit of Grand Forks, North Dakota, was living and working, alone, in a cabin down an overgrown lane only a few miles away. Sara and Mollie made a quick start at f...