With Jean Rochefort due back on the shoot in two days and a crowd of investors visiting the set, Gilliam, who is under pressure, decides to go ahead and shoot a scene in a location that may lose its leaves soon and therefore be unsuitable. The scene is with Johnny Depp and a "professional horse," who turns out to look the part but to not be able to act it.>br>
Terry Gilliam had had a Don Quixote project bouncing around in his brain for years. Finally, someone got behind the project. But somewhere in the netherworld between fantasy and reality, Mother Nature refused to smile on the production, turning it into a huge fiasco that never got completed. This documentary shows what happened.