Jiddu Krishnamurti spent sixty years traveling the world giving talks meant, in his words, to set humanity absolutely and unconditionally free, and this film traces how he got there. Archival footage from India, England, and America in the 1920s and 30s follows his childhood discovery by Theosophist Annie Besant, who groomed him to become the next World Teacher, a figure tradition holds arrives on earth every 2,000 years. The film shows him instead breaking from that role and from the organization built around him, and spending the rest of his life teaching without doctrine or authority. Scientists, authors, educators, students, and friends who knew him appear alongside his own recorded talks, offering their impressions of a man who resisted being turned into a guru even as thousands came to hear him speak. The biography stays close to the tension at its center: a child raised to lead a religious movement who grew into someone who told his followers not to believe him.