What role do intuition, emotion, fantasy, and escapism play in contemporary art? The Art in the Twenty-First Century documentary Romance explores these questions in the work of the artists Pierre Huyghe, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman, and Laurie Simmons, shot on location in New York, California, Germany, and France. How contemporary artists respond to traditionally romantic ideals such as sentimentality, pathos, and the philosophy of art for arts sake, Romance poses questions about the value of pleasure in art and features artists whose works are extended meditations on mortality, love, reality and make-believe.