Formed almost by accident in 1988 when Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison ended up needing a B-side for a European single, the Traveling Wilburys turned a one-off session into two albums and a brief, odd chapter of rock history. This film traces how five musicians at very different points in their careers, Dylan already a legend, Petty riding solo success, Orbison in the middle of a late-career comeback, Harrison a decade removed from the Beatles, and Lynne fresh off producing duties, ended up recording together under pseudonyms in Harrison's garage studio. Archival footage and interviews cover the writing sessions, the group's decision to hide behind fictional Wilbury brothers rather than trade on their own names, and the shadow Orbison's death cast over the second record. The film treats the band's brevity as part of the story rather than a footnote, showing how a low-stakes side project became one of the more unusual supergroup records of its decade.