Fully documents the screen legacy of Sam Peckinpah, a womanising, cocaine-taking, hard-drinking ex-marine. His extreme lifestyle is married to excessive meticulousness and ludicrous studio-baiting tactics. Besides interviews with some of his closest friends and collaborators, each of the director's films is reviewed and analysed, together with his TV work, unrealised projects, and working relationship with his favourite actor and on-screen alter ego Warren Oates.