Skateboarder-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta gathers the team he assembled in the early 1980s to tell the story of how it changed the sport. Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, and Mike McGill sit down individually to talk through what it meant to be plucked as teenagers, often from broken homes or outsider status, and turned into the Bones Brigade, the demo team behind Powell-Peralta. Archival footage from contests and backyard pools sits alongside home video of the riders as kids, and the interviews are candid about the pressure of constant competition, the awkwardness of overnight fame, and the friendships that formed and frayed. Mullen discusses inventing tricks that are now standard vocabulary in street skating, and Hawk talks through the years when skateboarding nearly disappeared as a mainstream activity before it came back on his terms. The film treats skateboarding's evolution from vert ramps to street style as the backbone of the story, told through the people who lived it rather than through outside commentators.