Now in his fifth decade and living on the outskirts of London in near‑poverty on universal credit, the supernatural English writer Quentin S. Crisp (not to be confused with the other Quentin Crisp, author of The Naked Civil Servant) contemplates the value of living a creative life such as his. As living under austerity makes security increasingly elusive, and without the assurances of fame, posterity, or financial stability, he begins to sense his life and writing edging toward material disappearance. Duckweed adopts the form of the literary zuihitsu, a style of Japanese literature where one “follows the brush.” This feature‑length documentary is structured around readings of Crisp’s own zuihitsu of the same name, which, in essence, is the story of his life. As we follow Crisp into the “little wood” of his private landscape, the binaries of success and failure fade, and the film presents him reimagining himself as a simple duckweed plant—inviting us to speculate on existence beyond earthly appearances despite our gradual extinction here.