A portrait of the life and influences of the mysterious Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), an man who has mesmerized the public with his uniquely bizarre graphic designs that are often drenched in mind boggling mathematical principles. An in-depth examination of M.C. Escher's work through interviews with his friends and mathematicians, computer animated recreations, an investigation into his Spanish and Italian sources of inspiration, and of course, a look at the artist's amazing prints.