"A Vision" was Thomas Mann's first published work. In this short piece themes and strategies that will emerge in Mann's later work are evident: the analytical description of “feeling states,” the scientific approach to documenting the irrational, and the objective, yet literary depiction of distorted perception. In my film version of Mann's work I have tried to honor the visual quality of Mann's writing. Though my film is set in the 1920s, the emotional truths he describes -- of remembering love, and dealing with loss -- resonate today.