Herzog tours a substantially renovated apartment that he and his family shared with Kinski and other boarders, looks at the first film clip he ever saw of Kinski, and presents footage from the sets of their various movies. He recounts the heated and sometimes violent altercations between them, including the oft-repeated story of how he threatened to shoot Kinski should he leave the production of "Aguirre". He also draws on footage from "Burden of Dreams" (1982), a documentary about the making of "Fitzcarraldo", which was a particularly difficult film for their relationship.