In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.

In a fishing village, somewhere in Italy, lives Geppetto. He is a carver of his profession. A nice man, but is a bit strange he did. Find that the people in the village too. But they do not know how lonely he is and how he wants to have a son. And then it happens: the Blue Fairy makes sure his favorite doll comes alive Pinocchio! But that's not all. Fairy Pinocchio promises that he can be a real boy of flesh and blood. But he must be well behaved exemplary and very brave. To be a real boy Pinocchio goes looking for his heart. On his way, he encounters all kinds of temptations against ... the spectacular circus to the breathtaking Cockaigne. Will he be able to resist these temptations? Will he not lie too much, causing his nose keeps getting longer and longer? Will he know his father Geppetto rescue from the belly of the whale? And ... Fairy will eventually transform him into a real boy?