The evolution of the recording sessions for the Rolling Stones song “Sympathy for the Devil” provides the connective tissue of Godard’s filmic essay on creation, destruction, and revolution. Interspersed with a series of ideological set pieces, including a pastoral press conference with Eve Democracy (Anne Wiazemsky), Black Panthers reading from Eldridge Cleaver and Amiri Baraka in an auto-wrecking depot, and a porn shop proprietor reciting Mein Kampf, the hit tune comes together as Godard takes everything else apart.