From his agonizing bout with spina bifida to his unfaithful marriage to
his spiraling addiction to drugs and alcohol, Abraham covers the singer's darkest days, which culminated with his death at the early age of 29 in 1953.
Benny's downward
spiral seems almost destined, considering her mother's (Canelle Hoppé) own problems with
drugs, particularly a continuing heroin
addiction, and Benny handles everything through her creative impulses, either in her filmmaking or in her uses of different wigs and makeup
to change her look (and hide the fact that she hasn't been able
to wash her hair in a long time).
But his vigilante - style approach
to his job leaves him with few friends, while his
addiction to prescription
drugs is sending him into a downward
spiral.