"I was working in Paris with Ben on 'Passages,' and I saw a book in a bookstore called 'Peter Hujar's Day,' and it was a publication of a transcript of a conversation that took place in 1974 ...
The film is a recreation of a conversation between Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and his close friend, Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), using the word-for-word transcript of the real individuals' chat.