Mike Brant was born Moshe Brant in 1947 to a Holocaust survivor and a resistance fighter in a displaced person's camp in Cyprus. The family relocated to Israel shortly thereafter, and as a teenager Brant began singing in nightclubs and cabarets. Brant was discovered by French star Sylvie Vartan, and he moved to Paris where he soon became an international pop star and teen heartthrob. The pressures of fame eventually became too much for Brant, and he committed suicide at the age of twenty-eight. This film includes interviews with those close to Brant, and features archival footage of Brant in private and public moments.

When British folk singer/songwriter Nick Drake died of a drug overdose in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, he left behind only three albums of songs and no performance or interview film footage. Despite the paucity of archival material, director Jeroen Berkvens is able to create a unique portrait of the enigmatic Drake through interviews with friends and family, footage of the hauntingly beautiful English landscapes that inspired Drake, a reconstruction of Drake's bedroom created using old photographs, and, of course, a soundtrack made up of Drake's beautiful and melancholy songs.

Lucky Three features acclaimed indie folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliot Smith performing three songs—"Between the Bars," "Thirteen," and "Angeles"—alone with his acoustic guitar in a small rehearsal room in Portland, Oregon. The performance segments are interspersed with footage of Smith walking around in Portland. This beautiful and intimate portrait is especially touching given that Smith committed suicide in 2003 at the age of thirty-four.