Ben Rogers picks up a video camera and starts recording his own life, not realizing he is filming the final two years of it. The footage is his, shot in bedrooms, bathrooms, and cars, showing the mechanics of heroin use up close: the preparation, the highs, the sickness when the drug runs out, and the promises to quit that do not hold. Family and friends appear in the diary entries too, watching someone they love disappear in front of a camera he insisted on holding himself. There is no outside narrator shaping the story into a lesson; Ben's own commentary, recorded in the moment rather than after the fact, carries the film. The video journal format means the camera catches him at his most functional and at his worst, often within the same week, without the distance that a produced interview would add. It ends where his life did, and the last tapes are the reason the film exists at all.