The film follows director Terry Gilliam's making of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a long-gestating project that had suffered multiple delays and cast changes, which was finally released in 2018.

[3][4] The film, much like the first, follows Gilliam's making of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in Spain in 2017, finally securing the finance necessary (albeit half of the 2000 version's budget) and reuniting several of the original crew, such as cinematographer Nicola Pecorini.

Interspersed with the behind-the-scenes of the production is Gilliam meditating on film-making, aging and his fraught relationship with the film's long development.

In May 2018, a few days before the premiere of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Fulton and Pepe said they would release a new documentary.

[5] It would cover the entire history of the film's making, with particular focus on what happened after the events depicted in Lost in La Mancha.