Michel Houellebecq and Iggy Pop first met in 2009 after having admired each other's works for a long time. Houellebecq been a big fan of The Stooges since he was a teenager and Pop ended up recording two albums in French as a consequence of his encounter with Houellebecq. The director Erik Lieshout had first met Houellebecq when he interviewed him for Dutch television during the promotion of the novel "The Possibility of an Island", and ended up directing "Last Words", a behind-the-scenes documentary for Houellebecq's own film adaptation of the novel. 痛苦在生存中的意義是什麼?本片尋訪那些飽受心靈苦難折磨的人們,並讓法國龔固爾文學獎得主米歇爾維勒貝克(Michel Houellebecq)跟龐克教父伊吉帕普(Iggy Pop)破天荒同台演出。由伊吉帕普擔任敘事者,走進韋勒貝克的作品《活著》,訴說關於癲狂、藝術、和奮力一搏的意義,既是誠實的自我剖析,也是帶領那些同樣處境的人們繼續前進。