A bet made in the late 1970s comes due on camera: Werner Herzog told documentarian Errol Morris that if Morris ever finished the film he was struggling to make about pet cemeteries, Herzog would eat his shoe. Morris finished it, and this short film by Les Blank records Herzog making good on his word at a public screening in Berkeley, boiling the shoe in stock with garlic and herbs before sitting down to eat it in front of an audience. Herzog treats the stunt as more than a joke, using the moment to talk about filmmaking, risk, and the value of pushing artists to finish what they start, with Morris and members of the crowd looking on. Blank's camera stays close on the preparation and the eating itself, unglamorous and slightly absurd, while Herzog narrates his reasoning between bites. It is a small, odd document of two directors who would go on to shape nonfiction film, caught at a moment when one of them literally had to eat his words.