Leigh Bowery grows up in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, before moving to London and turning himself into the most extravagant figure on the club scene. Director Charles Atlas assembles archival footage, interviews with friends and collaborators, and Bowery's own reflections to trace how a shy Australian teenager became a nightclub fixture at Taboo, dressing in costumes built from padding, paint, and prosthetics that made his body itself the artwork. The film follows his move from clubland into fashion and performance art, including collaborations with Vivienne Westwood and Rifat Ozbek that pushed runway shows toward theater and shock. It sets his work against the backdrop of 1980s London, where being openly queer carried real risk, and shows how Bowery turned that exposure into a public, deliberate act rather than something to hide. Performance footage from his club nights and gallery pieces carries much of the film, with interview subjects filling in the biography around it. The result is a portrait built from the costumes and stages themselves, not just accounts of them.