Bob Geldof and Bono spent three decades turning rock-star fame into a lobbying weapon against African poverty, starting with Live Aid in 1985 and running through the Make Poverty History campaign. Director Bosse Lindquist tracks that history through archival concert footage, palace meetings, and new interviews in which Geldof, Bono, and Bill Gates talk openly about the mechanics of celebrity politics: how to flatter a head of state, when to threaten a politician with bad press, and how to keep an audience of billions watching. The film does not treat the two singers as saints or frauds but asks a plainer question, one Lindquist poses directly: did any of this actually reduce poverty, or did it mainly reduce the political cost of ignoring it? Aid economists and former officials weigh in on what changed in African debt relief and what didn't. The result is a look at activism as a professional skill, built on television audiences and the vanity of the powerful rather than on protest alone.