Peter and Pearla have been living together for a while, and their relationship has started to sour. After an argument, Pearla encounters Thaddeus for a brief discussion on the nature of art. She starts to understand that the work he is talking about is not a painting, but something much more lifelike. Pearla makes a fateful choice and returns home to find Peter an entirely new man, which of course means that she, too, must become a work of art.