Wilhelm Reich spent his career chasing what he called orgone, a cosmic life energy he believed ran through the human body and the atmosphere alike. This film traces his path from psychoanalyst in Freud's Vienna to a scientist building strange machines in the United States, among them the orgone accumulator, a box he claimed could concentrate the energy and treat cancer, and the cloudbuster, a pipe-and-cable device he used to disperse clouds and produce rain. His claims drew the attention of the FDA, which investigated the accumulator, ruled it fraudulent, and won an injunction against Reich's work. When he defied the court order, he was jailed for contempt, and government agents burned stacks of his books and papers. He died of a heart attack in a Pennsylvania federal prison in 1957, a week before he was due for parole. The film presents his story largely through his own claims and followers' accounts, framing the FDA's action as persecution rather than settled science.