Phil Ochs rose out of the early-1960s folk scene writing songs meant to change minds, not just sell records, and Kenneth Bowser's film traces that career through seven albums and a country in upheaval. Archival footage and performance clips carry the story alongside interviews describing Ochs as equally willing to needle the apathetic middle, the entrenched right, and a left he thought had gone soft. The film follows him from Greenwich Village clubs into the civil rights and anti-war movements, watching him hold to topical protest songwriting even as contemporaries like Dylan moved toward rock and abstraction. That refusal to adapt cost him commercial success, and the film does not soften the consequences: growing isolation, alcoholism, and a breakdown that ended in his suicide in 1976. Friends, fellow musicians, and family speak on camera about both the songwriting and the decline, giving the film its balance between the political troubadour and the man underneath. It closes less on tribute than on the specific toll of staying committed to a cause that stopped being fashionable.