[2] Holiff was inspired to produce the film when he stumbled on his father's storage locker filled with audio diaries and a large assortment of other documents relating to his time in the 1960s and 1970s as Cash's manager.
The locker also included a framed gold record of "A Boy Named Sue" which went on display at the Grand Theatre during the running of their musical Ring of Fire.
The film employs historically accurate flashbacks, starting with how Holiff met Cash when he hired him to sign autographs at his "Sol's Square Boy" drive-in in London, Ontario.
It’s an intense personal adventure with universal themes and appeal that just happens to feature one of 20th-century music’s great icons"[7] On Roger Ebert.com, the movie was described as "too damn interesting to be maudlin.
"[17] A reviewer with The Daily Telegraph commented on the frequent dramatic confrontations between Cash and Holiff revealed in authentic audio of phone exchanges between the two.