Supermensch records the astonishing career of Hollywood insider, the Shep Gordon, who collapsed with chance into music direction later befriending Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, also moving into manhattan project out of college. Shep proceeded to manage chefs like Emeril Lagasse, ushering in the age of star chefs on television, and later managed stone stars like Alice Cooper, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass and Pink Floyd.