Director Barry Blaustein, a former Saturday Night Live writer, spends time backstage with three professional wrestlers to see what the business costs the men performing it. Jake "the Snake" Roberts is the film's hardest subject, filmed mid-relapse on crack and, in one scene, driving to reconnect with the grown daughter he has barely known. Terry Funk wrestles on with knees that should have retired him years earlier, unwilling to leave a career that has defined him since he was young. Mick Foley, wrestling as Mankind, lets Blaustein's camera into a match where his family watches from ringside as he takes real chair shots and a real beating, visibly shaken by what they are seeing even though they know the outcome is scripted. Blaustein does not treat the choreography as the point; he treats it as the surface over genuine injury, exhaustion, and personal wreckage. The film moves between arenas, hotel rooms, and family homes, and the gap between the two settings is where its real story sits.