The story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator - the originator - Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.

A journalist is sent to Paris by Rolling Stone magazine to investigate the rumour of an old rock star being alive after he is presumed to have committed suicide 40 years ago