"Kurt and Sid" uses the imagined interaction between these two rock legends to explore deeper issues related to the music industry and personal turmoil.

This meeting allows for a dialogue between two legendary figures who never met in real life but shared similar struggles with fame, addiction, and mental health.

Nancy Spungen's indirect presence highlights the interconnectedness of these themes, as her story is emblematic of the darker side of rock culture that also affected Kurt.

Smiles turns the sad and wasteful story of Cobain, a heroin addict who blew his brains out with a shotgun in 1994, into a work that is at once laugh-out-loud funny, touching and thought-provoking.

Perhaps even more remarkably, he turns Sid Vicious, late of the Sex Pistols and perhaps the most worthless individual ever to emerge even from the murky world of rock music, into a highly engaging hero."