Living in the Story documents the life and work of distinguished photographic artist Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani, one of the most innovative photographic artists of our era. In the late 1970s, he pioneered the Contemporary Constructed Photographic Movement in Los Angeles, developing a new visual vocabulary by constructing tableau photographs from sets, sculptures, models, and paintings. The film portrays an artist deeply concerned and well informed about world events who uses imagery, storytelling and narrative fiction to raise awareness about modern anxieties including immigration/internment and nuclear issues. These issues are particularly relevant today, in light of escalating racial tensions, threats of nuclear war, toxic pollution and a growing refugee population worldwide. Despite the serious content of his subject matter, his innovative images are compelling and entertaining. An engaging raconteur and teacher, Nagatani talks in the film about his projects, his unorthodox photographic techniques, and his subtle weaving together of fiction and fact. Scott Nagatani’s hauntingly beautiful music score provides the film’s soundtrack.