Brian Duffy shot some of the defining images of the 1960s, from Ready Steady Go fashion spreads to the Aladdin Sane cover that turned David Bowie into Ziggy Stardust's alter ego. This film traces his career alongside the two photographers he was grouped with, David Bailey and Terence Donovan, the trio the press dubbed the Black Trinity for breaking fashion photography out of the studio and into real streets and real light. Archive images and interviews trace how the three men, all from working-class London backgrounds, displaced the aristocratic photographers who had dominated the industry and turned the photographer himself into a celebrity. The film also covers the strange coda to Duffy's career: in 1979 he built a bonfire in his garden and burned a large portion of his own negatives, walking away from photography for years. Colleagues and family describe what was lost in the fire and what survived it, and how his surviving work was later rediscovered and reassessed by the fashion world he had helped invent.