Peter Joseph made his name anonymously, releasing "Zeitgeist: The Movie" and its sequels without ever putting his full name on them, and founding The Zeitgeist Movement around the ideas in those films. This portrait comes from a single interview filmmaker Charles Robinson conducted in Joseph's home in late 2009, filled out with previously unreleased footage Joseph handed over himself. Joseph talks through his own biography: growing up in a middle-class family in North Carolina, a mother who worked as a social worker and shaped how he saw American life, and a move to New York to study art before settling into freelance work as a film editor, composer, and producer. He explains, on camera, why he has kept his identity private even as his films reached a wide audience, citing the controversy around their content and a wish to protect his day job. The footage is plain and the production rough by his own admitting the interviewer's word for it, but it is one of the few times Joseph discusses himself rather than his arguments.