The film explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist Marie Menken (1909-1970) who became one of New York's outstanding underground experimental filmmakers of the 1940s through the 1960s, inspiring artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, and Gerald Malanga. She was probably a role model for Edward Albee's "Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and ended up as a Warhol Superstar.