The film follows his three-year bipolar cycle, interwoven throughout are Z"s personal home videos, films and audiotapes. The home video footage vividly narrates the high points of his once happy family, as well as its slow destruction, the aftermath of the divorce, his loneliness, insanity and depression. Z develops a relationship with his camera; he speaks to the camera often as if it were a friend, a muse. The footage is very raw and engaging, and the voyeuristic quality reveals a certain truth.