Heath Ledger shot much of his own life on handheld cameras, and that footage forms the backbone of this account of his career, from Perth to Hollywood to the film sets of Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight. Friends, family, and collaborators including Naomi Watts, Ang Lee, and Ledger's father Kim Ledger describe an actor who treated every role as total immersion, sometimes to the point of exhaustion, and who kept building side projects in photography, music, and directing even as his acting career accelerated. The film traces his early Australian TV work, the leap to American films like 10 Things I Hate About You, and the string of performances that made him one of his generation's most respected actors. It does not shy from the insomnia and pressure that marked his final years, but it spends more time on his own camera's view of fatherhood with daughter Matilda and the creative restlessness that defined him, letting the people who knew him longest tell the story rather than a narrator.