John Kitchin was a successful neurologist in San Diego before he walked away from medicine to skate the boardwalk of Pacific Beach every day, moving so slowly and deliberately that locals nicknamed him Slomo. The film follows him through his routine, gliding on modified roller skates in a half-crouch, and lets him explain in his own words why he traded a medical career and a conventional life for hours spent moving along the same stretch of pavement. Interviews trace the decision back to a moment of dissatisfaction with his old life and a search for something closer to pure sensation, which he found in the physics and feel of skating fast enough to lean into turns but slow enough to notice everything. Beach regulars and observers weigh in on whether he is a visionary or simply a man who opted out, and the film does not settle the question for you. What it shows clearly is a person who built an entire philosophy of living around a single repeated motion.