David Bowie spent four decades reinventing himself in public, and this film traces that arc from a struggling young musician in London to the global figure who built Ziggy Stardust, then dismantled him. Interviews with friends, collaborators, and admirers sit alongside archival footage and performance clips, tracking how Bowie's partnerships with Brian Eno and Iggy Pop pushed him toward new sounds and personas whenever the old ones stopped serving him. The film follows the costume changes and genre jumps as a working method rather than a gimmick, showing an artist who treated reinvention as the actual craft. It also covers the cost: addiction during the mid-1970s, and the strain that touring and fame put on his marriages and his relationships with his children. Rather than settling on one version of Bowie, the film lets the contradictions stand, gender-bending provocateur and later rock elder statesman, and uses the people who worked closest with him to explain how one performer kept becoming someone new without losing the audience each time.