The story of trailblazing Nineteenth-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who modified the world together with his digital camera. Clever, resilient, egocentric, naive, eccentric, deceitful--Muybridge is a sophisticated, imperfect man and his story drips with ambition and success, loss and betrayal, close to dying experiences and even homicide. "The machine can't lie," Stanford declared of Muybridge's pioneering movement pictures. However what in regards to the photographer?