Claes Oldenburg's dramatically over-scaled sculptures based on food and other domestic items brought him to prominence in the 1960s as one of the foremost exponents of the Pop Art movement. In this film, Oldenburg's contemporaries, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, reminisce about their experiences with the artist. Art dealer Arne Glimcher, museum director Tom Krens, and critic Hilton Kramer, among others, discuss the development of Oldenburg's career from the early cardboard and plaster pieces to the large-scale public works made over the past 20 years with the writer, Coosje van Bruggen, to whom the artist is married. Oldenburg is filmed drawing in the couple's Manhattan studio, while van Bruggen and Oldenburg together retrace the conceptualization of a recent urban project, the Torn Notebook. The latter part of the film is devoted to the artists' complex installation of the 9-metre-long Giant Soft Shuttlecock in the ramps of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, October 1995, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology'.