"How I Learned to Love the Numbers" is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Berlin filmmaker Oliver Sechting (37) and his co-director Max Taubert (23) travel to New York with the idea of documenting the art scene there. However, the project is quickly overshadowed by Oliver's OCD, and the two directors fall prey to a conflict that becomes the central theme of their film. Encounters with film directors as Tom Tykwer ("Cloud Atlas"), Ira Sachs ("Keep the Lights On") or Jonathan Caouette ("Tarnation") seem more and more to resemble therapy sessions. At last, Andy Warhol-Superstar Ultra Violet succeeds in opening a new door for Oliver.