In The Picture of the Yellow Sun Lisbeth Johansen searches in the memories of the complicated relationship with her seriously ill father. A man who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and eventually died alone in his apartment only 57 years old. The ambivalence is present throughout the book, is it really possible to understand in retrospect what happened? Nevertheless, Johansen tirelessly searches further, in the family archive, among photo albums and her own portraits of her father. But above all by repeatedly trying to recreate the memory of a work of art painted by her father. A painting of a yellow sun that she is no longer in possession of.