Beyoncé is the subject of this documentary built around the making of her fourth solo album, 4, tracking the year of writing and recording that led up to its release. The film follows her through that stretch of work rather than staging a traditional biography, treating the album itself as the record of what she was going through personally and artistically during the period. There is no outside narrator walking viewers through the timeline; the footage is presented as a direct account of the process behind songs like the ones that ended up on 4. Details on specific studio sessions, collaborators, or interview subjects are thin in the available material, so the film reads best as a companion piece to the album rather than a full account of her career or life story.