Calvino, the legendary artist and lover, wastes away in a luxurious desert prison. When a traveler comes to the prison seeking fortune, he shares stories of the women he has known in order to soothe Calvino's lonely soul. But in his dying passion, the great artist sets the traveler an impossible task. Lyrical, poetic and surreal, Invisible Women is a modern parable that examines art, passion and the destructive futility of the male gaze.