Callum Padgham, a filmmaker from a middle-class Melbourne background, spends seven days sleeping rough on the city's streets with nothing but the clothes he is wearing and a camera he holds himself. Padgham and co-creator Tavis Urquhart shoot the whole thing guerrilla-style, no crew, no permits, just Padgham narrating his own decline into hunger, cold, and boredom as the days pass. The footage tracks a shift from novelty to something closer to despair: he describes apathy setting in, then depression, then a kind of self-loathing he did not expect to find in himself after less than a week. Melbourne locals who fed him or gave him somewhere to sit appear briefly, credited by first name only. The film closes with roughly ten minutes covering his return home and what he takes from the experiment. End credits point viewers toward the Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul, and The Big Issue, the organizations actually working with the people Padgham spent a week imitating.