Janis Joplin was one of the world's most influential rock icons and a goddess of sound, but there was far more to her than that. Director Amy Berg strips away Janis' rock 'n roll persona to reveal the gentle, trusting, sensitive, but powerful woman behind the legend, in the quintessential story of the short, turbulent, and epic existence that changed music forever. Interviews paint a new, intimate portrait of Janis the woman.