Vivian Kubrick, the director's daughter, spent time on set during production of The Shining, camera in hand, and this is the result: a behind-the-scenes record of Stanley Kubrick at work. Jack Nicholson walks through his preparation for the axe-through-the-door 'Here's Johnny!' scene, and the crew rebuilds the Overlook Hotel's corridors and ballroom take after take under Kubrick's famously exacting direction. Shelley Duvall talks about the toll of dozens of repeated takes, and other cast and crew describe what it was like working under a director who rarely explained what he wanted, only that a take was wrong. Kubrick himself appears mostly at a distance, watching monitors, adjusting blocking, saying little. The film has no narrator and little structure beyond the chronology of the shoot itself, which suits the subject: a process built on repetition, control, and long stretches of waiting for something to click into place on camera.