Russell Brand looks back at the years when heroin controlled his life, a period he says ended with a doctor's warning that he had six months to live if he kept using. The comedian and actor walks through the collapse it nearly caused in his career, tracing the path from addiction to the recovery process that let him keep working. Brand speaks directly to camera about what the drug did to his body and his relationships, and about the mechanics of getting clean rather than just the fact of it. The film stays close to his own account, using his voice and memory as the spine of the story instead of outside experts or reenactment. It is a personal record of one specific recovery, told by the person who lived it, with the six-month prognosis serving as the moment everything else in the film measures itself against.