People are shown engaged in ordinary activities with minimal direction.

[1] Leth described it as containing "large and small things, events, people, thoughts and feelings".

The film's best-known scene shows artist Andy Warhol eating a Whopper hamburger from the fast food restaurant chain Burger King.

The scene is the longest in the film, in part because Warhol did not realize he was expected to say his name immediately after he finished eating, and Leth did not edit out the awkward pause that resulted.

[3] In 2019, Burger King aired an excerpt from the scene as a commercial during Super Bowl LIII.