During a routine press conference Dr. Jimmy, rock music icon, lead singer and front man of the band that bears his name, quite unexpectedly announces that he is quitting the group, leaves the room, as well as public life, and virtually vanishes without a trace. Twenty-three years later a young reporter, through an unlikely set of circumstances, discovers and interviews the reclusive former star. Against the backdrop of college life in the early 1970s and pop-culture of the seventies and eighties Jimmy reluctantly explains not just why he threw away his career at the peak of his celebrity, but how he grew from a shy, reticent college student who was a failure with women to become a nationally-recognized mega-star and sex symbol. Quite unexpectedly, through this biographical narrative, fraught with sex, self-indulgence, betrayal, retribution, and death, Jimmy also makes a few extraordinary discoveries about himself.