Live performance footage from Bob Dylan’s 1976 “Rolling Thunder Review” tour is juxtaposed with interviews, documentary imagery of contemporary events, and an improvised love story about fictional characters Renaldo, Clara, and the “Woman in White.” David Blue, a close friend of Dylan, talks about Beat poetry and the folk music scene in 1960s New York City. The men met at the Gaslight nightclub in the East Village, listening to poetry readings by writers, including Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. On the night Dylan wrote his classic song “Blowin’ In The Wind,” Blue and Dylan were hanging out at Gerde’s Folk City with fellow musician Gil Turner. After writing the lyrics, Dylan asked Blue to strum various guitar chords. Later that evening, Dylan performed the song for Turner, who liked the song so much he got onstage and performed the song for the crowd. Although Blue enjoyed the “energy” of the Beat poet scene, he never expected any of the writers to become famous. At the same time, the folk music scene grew with musicians including Joan Baez, Dylan, and Fred Neil. Dylan played harmonica for Neil in exchange for $1 a night and a floor to sleep on. Blue says that the “Bob Dylan” the public knows is a myth, and in reality, Dylan is just a normal family man. The documentary portion of the film covers the court case of middle-weight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. In 1966, Carter was convicted of a triple homicide in Paterson, New Jersey. In 1976, Carter won an appeal and his case was re-tried. Dylan backed Carter’s innocence and wrote the protest song “Hurricane,” claiming Carter was a victim of racial profiling. Around the time of the “Rolling Thunder Review,” Dylan and his friends held a benefit concert for Carter to raise money for his court appeal. Scenes from the benefit are intercut with Carter’s interviews and reactions from residents in Harlem, New York. One black man could not muster outrage because he believed blacks will never receive justice. Carter reveals that while he loves America, he also believes the legal system does not work. During another sequence, Dylan and his entourage storm the offices of CBS records to confront record executive Walter Yetnikoff, demanding the label release “Hurricane” as a single immediately; Yetnikoff agrees. During the love triangle between Renaldo, Clara and, the “Woman in White,” Renaldo meets the “Woman in White” first, on the road with his band at a gypsy bar. They begin a relationship, but Renaldo trades the woman for a horse and leaves her with another man. The “Woman” complains that it was impossible to make Renaldo happy. Meanwhile, Clara wanders aimlessly across the country, eventually joining a bordello where she works with the “Woman in White.” Later, Clara starts a relationship with a man named Rodeo, but she leaves him for Renaldo. The night before a show, the “Woman” tracks down Renaldo and Clara to confront them. Clara does not believe her until she reads a letter Renaldo wrote to her. Both women demand an explanation, but Renaldo gives evasive answers. The “Woman in White” says that in the ten years she has known Renaldo, he has never given her a straight answer. The “Woman” finally realizes that Renaldo will never make a decision and leaves. Renaldo returns to kissing Clara. Later, as Renaldo gets ready for the show, Clara snipes that the “Woman” must be frigid and barren, but Renaldo defends her. The “Woman” returns to her previous life and friends. After Renaldo finishes his show, he goes to a private room alone and lays on the floor with his guitar, exhausted.